Henri-Léopold Lévy

Henri-Léopold Lévy (23 September 1840, Nancy - 29 December 1904, Paris) was a French painter of Jewish ancestry, known primarily for mythological and Biblical subjects.

His artistic education began at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where he worked in the studios of François-Édouard Picot, Alexandre Cabanel and Eugène Fromentin.

Two years later, he received an award for his version of Jehoash of Judah being saved from the slaughter of his family ordered by Athaliah.

[1] Despite being a Chevalier, his career suffered from the anti-Semitism that swept France after the Dreyfus Affair and he lost customers by refusing to sign his paintings with a different name.

Among his notable students one may mention Georges A. L. Boisselier, Henri Dabadie, Lluïsa Vidal and Eugène Trigoulet [fr].

Henri-Léopold Lévy, photograph by Nadar
The Death of Orpheus , c. 1870
Young Woman and Death , 1876