Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)

Eglise au soleil

Details

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Eglise au soleil
signed L. Lhermitte lower left
pastel and black chalk on paper laid down on canvas
21 3/8 x 15 7/8in. (51.7 x 40.2cm.)

Provenance

Allard, Paris, no. 6117
Wallis

Literature

M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Paris, 1991, p. 275; no. 668 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

Painted in 1919.

After the war, Lhermitte travelled through Mont-Saint-Père and
its neighboring villages. This pastel depicts the church at Chartèves, that had been damaged during the war.

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