translate English to French: Count Lepic, who was a sculptor who exhibited with the Impressionists, and a friend of Degas, didn't commission this painting,. which is not, therefore, a picture based on various studies, but which is itself a study which preserves all the freshness of a first impression.
Le portrait du comte Ludovic Lepic avec ses deux petites filles, cr�� probablement peu apr�s la guerre franco-allemande, est en relation avec ces �uvres.