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Eugène Louis Lami, French, 1800 - 1890 (Artist)
In 1815, Lami’s career as a printmaker, watercolorist, painter and architect began under the tutelage of Horace Vernet and Richard Parkes Bonington. He later became the official artist to both King Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. In 1862, Lami was made Officer of the Legion of Honor. According to French publisher Henri Béraldi: “One well recognizes in [Lami] an artist in love with modernity and the elegant portrayal of modern life, who knew how to see . . . a nineteenth century which is aristocratic, even glittering, a nineteenth century of elegant society, sport, the hunt, balls, fetes, revues, galas.”
Signed lower left: LAMI
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
"Thrill of the Chase: Steeplechase in Art" National Sporting Library & Museum, September 9, 2020 - March 22, 2021
"The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso: Works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The National Sporting Library & Museum, May 6 - July 31, 2016
"The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso: Works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", University of Richmond, March 3 - April 25, 2016
"Degas' Racing World", Wildenstein & Co., New York, March 21-April 27, 1968; cataog no. 74.
"The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso: Works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The National Sporting Library & Museum, May 6 - July 31, 2016
"The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso: Works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", University of Richmond, March 3 - April 25, 2016
"Degas' Racing World", Wildenstein & Co., New York, March 21-April 27, 1968; cataog no. 74.
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