Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie
1819
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1819
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie is a 1819 watercolor by Louis Dupré, a Orientalism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a woman sitting on a chair, draped in flowing robes. Her long hair falls over one shoulder, and she wears a striped dress with a patterned sash. The artist used soft watercolors, leaving some areas pale and others slightly darker, giving the scene a gentle, unfinished look. Notice how the fabric folds look almost like they’re moving—it’s a quick, loose style. The artist didn’t focus on tiny details but instead captured the overall mood and gesture. Check out Romanticism to see how this style played with emotion and imagination in art.
Louis Dupré’s *Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie* is a watercolour drawing depicting a young Greek woman from Livadeia. The work was reproduced in Dupré’s 1825 publication *Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople* as plate XVI under the same title. The drawing was previously part of a pair sold at Bonhams in 1974 for £20.
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Louis Dupré traveled Ottoman lands in the 1810s and 1820s, painting watercolours of daily life like Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie and Mehmet Aga Salam.
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