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The Death of Orpheus
Henri Leopold Lévy · c. 1870
Provenance
Ownership history
- Madame Duteil [according to label on reverse]. Purchased by Jacques Fischer, Paris, at the Marché aux Puces [see Patrice Marandel letter in curatorial file]. Galerie B. G. Verte, Paris by 1976; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Dorothy M. Kosinski, "Orpheus in Nineteenth-Century Symbolism, Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde" Ph.D., New York University, 1985 (Uni Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1989), p. 197, fig. 6.20.
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