Louis-Léon-Eugène BILLOTEY (1883-1940) Portrait of Iphigénie, circa 1935 Gouache and ink on tracing paper. Studio stamp lower right. 29.5 x 54.5 cm Our gouache can be compared with the oil on canvas representing Le Sacrifice d'Iphigénie, owned by the Centre Georges Pompidou, musée national d'Art moderne (inv. AM 2029P) and deposited with the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Roubaix in 1994. This subject gave rise to numerous studies by the painter, notably documented in numbers 120 to 129 and 147 to 149 in the catalog for the exhibition Louis Billotey : l'ambition classique (Musée départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais, April 24 to June 23, 2002; Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, June 28 to September 1, 2002; La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, October 4 to December 8, 2002; Musée du Donjon, Niort, December 20, 2002 to February 20, 2003; Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt, May-June 2003).