Lotz, 1900. Although celebrated as the leader of the creative revival of wood engraving in late 19th-century France, Lep?re was also a painter who used pastel to make studies directly from nature. This study of a woman sewing is inscribed to the artist?s friend, Lotz-Brissonneau, who in 1905 authored the catalogue raisonn? of Lep?re?s graphic work.