Plate Design for E. Leveille

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate Design for E. Leveille

Ludovic Napoléon Lepic

Date
1886/89
Medium
Pen and black ink on cream wove card
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

A member of a French aristocratic family, Count Lepic was himself an artist, a museum curator, and a friend of Edgar Degas. Responding to Bracquemond’s promotion of Japanese aesthetics in porcelain and glass, Lepic created this plate design of a small sailboat at sea.

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