Eugéne-Louis Lami (Paris 1800-1890)

Design for a fan; The birth of King Edward VII

Details

Eugéne-Louis Lami (Paris 1800-1890)
Design for a fan; The birth of King Edward VII
pencil and watercolour, shaped
3 x 12 in. (7.5 x 30.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Férault, Biarritz, where purchased by
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor; Sotheby's, New York, 19 February 1998, lot 1192, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

After the Museum at Versailles was inaugurated in 1837 and King Louis-Philippe was married, Lami's subject matter focussed on the court of Louis-Philippe and bourgeois society; mostly working in watercolour, he executed works such as Races at Chantilly (1835). After Louis-Philippe's fall in 1848 Lami followed him to England where he produced a number of watercolours depicting English society, such as Costume Ball at Buckingham Palace (1851 Royal Collection). He returned to France in 1852.

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