Pair of watercolors by Emile Lessore, nude women bathers, naiads, Sèvres, 19th century
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Pair of watercolors with gouache highlights signed E. Lessore*, preparatory works for painting on ceramics (for the Manufacture de Sèvres), representing two bucolic scenes with young naked or undressed women, bathers or naiads on the riverbank, in gilded wooden frames, from the 1850s to the mid-19th century.
These watercolors are in good condition. One of them is signed, also labeled on the back ("Lessore figures 1853-1855 Manufacture de Sèvres").
Please note: slight wear on the frames, wear of time, see photos.
was a French painter. Émile-Aubert Lessore worked in his studio at 15 rue de Calais in what is now the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of Montmartre. With William Wyld (1806-1889), he undertook a trip to North Africa, from which he brought back numerous sketches, drawings, and orientalist paintings. This trip is recounted in their illustrated work: Voyage pittoresque dans la Régence d'Alger en 1830. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1950. In the 1840s, Lessore trained as a ceramic painter and worked at the Manufacture de Sèvres in the 1850s.
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