translate English to French: To obtain the best effect from the foamy brightness of the girls� dresses, the children are placed in front of the turquoise shutters on the windowsill, where at the same time they frame their father. A few years later Lepic with his daughters, grown in the meantime, appears in "Place de la Concorde", a bold pictorial invention which transcends the limits of portraiture as such.
Ce n�est pas un tableau r�alis� apr�s plusieurs �tudes, mais bien plut�t un portrait qui a conserv� toute la fra�cheur d�une premi�re impression, qui est lui-m�me une �tude.