Esquisse pour la mairie de Pantin : Allégories du canal de l'Ourcq, du Travail et de la Navigation - Fête champêtre (plafond et panneau mural)

Lévy's sketch for Pantin's town hall presents an elaborate decorative program on the allegorical themes of the Ourcq Canal, Labor, and Navigation — culminating in a fête champêtre, the outdoor celebration that doubled as an image of civic leisure and prosperity. The Ourcq Canal, running through Pantin, was the town's central industrial artery, and its elevation to allegorical status in the mairie's decorations was a gesture of civic pride. The combination of canal commerce, labor, navigation, and pastoral celebration constructed a complete vision of working-class republican prosperity.

The multiple allegories require a complex compositional program: figures associated with water, tools, and festivity must be organized into a readable scheme across ceiling and wall panels. The sketch resolves this through a rhythmic arrangement of female figures in classical drapery against architectural and landscape backgrounds.