
Collection Online as of June 6, 2023
(French, 1849–1918)
Pastel
Support: Cardboard
Sheet: 55.6 x 26.5 cm (21 7/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.127
not on view
Although celebrated as the leader of the creative revival of wood engraving in late 19th-century France, Lepère was also a painter who used pastel to make studies directly from nature. This study of a woman sewing is inscribed to the artist’s friend, Lotz-Brissonneau, who in 1905 authored the catalogue raisonné of Lepère’s graphic work.