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Leon Augustin Lhermitte 1844-1925 French La Famille en Moisson Pastel Drawn in 1908 S...

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Leon Augustin Lhermitte 1844-1925 French La Famille en Moisson Pastel Drawn in 1908 S...
Leon Augustin Lhermitte
1844-1925 French
La Famille en Moisson
Pastel
Drawn in 1908
Signed; signed & titled on recto & frame
Note: This work is contained within its original gilt frame.
14 x 16 in, 33.6 x 40.6 cm

Leon Lhermitte, as one artist with intense academic training, became one of the most exquisite pastellistes of his era. Working near ChGteau-ThiTrry or on the coast of France, and recomposing scenes in his Parisian studio, Lhermitte created scenes of solemnity and quiet. Whether focusing on daily rustic activity or the theme of Motherhood the artist was careful to evoke a sense of intimacy. Lhermitte sent his initial entry to the Salon in 1864 when he was nineteen, and continued to exhibit charcoal drawings and paintings regularly, and pastels after 1885, winning his first medal in 1874 with La Moisson. This work closely resembles
Museum collections include:
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Goteborg Art Gallery, Sweden; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Melton Park Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK; Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain; Musee d'Orsay, Paris; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Museum of Fine Art, Saintes, France; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan; Toledo Museum of Art, OH: Art Gallery, Ontario; Art Institute of Chicago; Boston Museum of Fine Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Denver Museum of Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Art.

Provenance: Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris #21501
Wallis Collection by 1909
T. Woods, Ottawa
Private Collection, Ottawa by descent.

Exhibited: The French Gallery, London, "Selected Pictures by J. Israels, L. Lhermitte, M. Maris, H. Harpignes", 1909, number 51, illustrated in the catalogue.
Literature: Monique LePelley Fonteny, Leon Augustin Lhermitte, Catalogue Raisonne, Paris 1991, p.252, number 533.
Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000