Henri-Léopold Lévy

Henri-Léopold Lévy, born in Nancy on September 23, 1840 and died in Paris on December 29, 1904 , was a French painter.

The son of an embroidery manufacturer, Henri-Léopold Lévy entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshop of François-Édouard Picot , of Alexandre Cabanel and Eugène Fromentin .

He did many works on historical themes, biblical and mythological. It is in the Salon of 1865 he began his work with Hecuba, the body of his son, found in the sea on Polidoro for which he received his first medal. In 1867 he was rewarded for Joash, son saved from grandchildren massacre of Athalia and in 1869 for captive Hebrew crying on the ruins of Jerusalem. In 1872, when he painted Herodias , he received the Legion of Honour .

Levy created many religious compositions like the murals of scenes from the life Dionysius for Saint-Merri in Paris, or the Coronation of Charlemagne (1881) for the Pantheon in Paris , while the building was still a church . He is also the author of the study for the glories of Burgundy that adorns a sign of the Hall of States Bourgogne in Dijon .