Count Lepic and His Daughters

Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters

Artist	Edgar Degas
Year	c. 1871
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	65 cm × 81 cm (26 in × 32 in)
Location	Foundation E.G. Bührle

Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (French: Ludovic Lepic et ses filles) is a painting by Edgar Degas that was completed around 1871. The painting depicts Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic with his young daughters.

On February 10, 2008, the painting was stolen from Foundation E.G. Bührle in Zürich, Switzerland.^[1] It was recovered in April 2012 with slight damage.^[2]

Degas also painted Ludovic Lepic in the painting Place de la Concorde.^[3]

References

↑ "Reward for $180m Zurich art heist bandits". Herald Sun. February 13, 2008.
↑ "Stolen Degas recovered damaged". SWI swissinfo.ch.
↑ Samuel, Henry (February 11, 2008). "Paintings worth £85 million stolen in Zurich". The Daily Telegraph. London.

External links

Foundation E.G. Bührle: Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters

Edgar Degas
Paintings	The Bellelli Family (1858–67) Young Spartans Exercising (1860) Interior (1868–69) The Dancing Class (1870) Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (1871) A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873) The Dance Class (1874) The Ballet Class (1874) Place de la Concorde (1876) L'Absinthe (1876) The Dance Lesson (1879) Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) Portraits at the Stock Exchange (1879) The Millinery Shop (1879–86) Before the Race (1882-84)
Pastels	Waiting (1880-82) Young Woman in Blue (1884) After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself (1890-95)
Sculptures	La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (1881)

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