Postcard Jules Lefebvre - Eve, Palais des Beaux Arts Paris, A.N. Paris nr. 23

Museum postcard with a sepia reproduction of "Eve" by French academic painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911), published by A.N. Paris under number 23. The front cites the Palais des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris as its source — the present-day Petit Palais, built for the 1900 World Exhibition. The image depicts a standing female nude with long flowing hair and an apple held behind the back, in the stylised naturalist tradition of French academic painting. The reverse is unused and blank, with the notation "Made in France / Fabriqué en France".

Jules Joseph Lefebvre was one of the most respected academic painters in late nineteenth-century Paris, known for his technically refined nudes and allegorical figures. "Eve" belongs to the type of mythologically charged academic nude that was widely represented at the Salon and in museum collections between 1880 and 1910. The A.N. Paris publishing house produced high-quality photographic reproductions of museum works for the growing audience of art collectors and museum visitors around the turn of the century.