Lot 106: EDOUARD LIÈVRE | Les Romains de la décadence, after Thomas Couture

gouache and watercolour on paper

sheet 64.5 x 99.5 cm. (25½ x 39½ in.)

gouache and watercolour on paper

Gouache and watercolour on paper. The artist's sheet has been laid on a second sheet of equal dimensions, probably by the artist himself, which has then been laid on a third sheet (71 by 104.5cm) hinged to the mat along the upper and lower edge. The sheet is somewhat wavy along the centre of the composition, but it is otherwise in very good condition and colours are strong. The work is ready to hang. Presented glazed, in a decorative gilt frame.
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Paris, Salon, 1859, no. 1998

Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, London, 1980, pp. 131 - 188, the original discussed; pp. 132 - 133, pl. VI, the original illustrated; detail of the original illustrated on the cover
Michel Laclotte, Geneviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, Claire Frèches-Thory, Painting in the Musée d'Orsay, London, 1986, p. 22, the original catalogued and illustrated