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Discover Charles Lepec (1830-Living), a French artist renowned for his innovative enamel artworks blending classic aesthetics with modern experimentation. Explore his legacy as a pioneer in 19th-century French art, including the notable 'Miniature of

This portrait miniature, superbly executed in enamel, is a lovely example of a type very popular amongst middle- and moneyed-classes of Europe and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. The sitter’s husband, English collector Alfred Morrison, was a champion of the artist, Lepec, and twenty years’ later commissioned a second enamel portrait of his wife (who seems hardly to have aged), also in The Met’s collection (2010.33). Morrison acquired an astonishingly large exhibition piece, an Italianate enameled vase and stand, also made by Lepec for display at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, also in The Met’s collection (2004.452).

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Title: Miniature of Mabel Morrison
Artist: charles lepec
Year: 1866
Original dimensions: 15.0 x 13.0 cm
Format: Portrait
Copyright status: Under copyright
Main color: Gray
Color intensity: Monochromatic

Miniature of Mabel Morrison

charles lepec (1830 –)

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