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Eugène-Louis Lami (Paris 1800-1890)
Lot 77

Eugène-Louis Lami (Paris 1800-1890)

Le chahut au bal de l'Opéra

Closed30 January 2014

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Eugène-Louis Lami (Paris 1800-1890)
Le chahut au bal de l'Opéra
signed and dated 'E. Lami 1851'
pencil and watercolor, heightened with white, arched top
7 1/8 x 10 in. (18 x 25.3 cm.)

Félix Doistau, Paris.
Gilbert Lévy; Paris, Drouot, 6 May 1987, lot 57.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1992, lot 421.
with W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York (cat., 1993, no. 21).

Specialist note

Lami began his career as a lithographer, depicting mostly military subjects. By the late 1830s his attention had shifted to subjects of royal pageantry and bourgeois society. After the fall of Louis-Philippe in 1848, Lami fled to England where he chronicled the festivities of English society in his watercolors. The present sheet dates to his English period.

We are grateful to Caroline Imbert for her help with the catalogue note.