TWO PORTRAITS BY HENRI LEHMANN IN SEVILLE

This article deals with two unknown portraits by Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), a French painter of German origin, who was one of Ingres's pupils, and a teacher of French Academy of Art, master of famous painters like Seurat or Pisarro. First of all these two pictures, dating from Lehmann's early period, are described and analyzed. Secondly, it is considered their social and cultural background, and their artistic importance, since they show the strong influence of Romanticism in Lehmann's work.