Lot Essay
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny dates this work to 1909.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Leon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
La Bergère près de la Rvière
Details
Leon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
La Bergère près de la Rvière
signed 'L. Lhermitte' lower left
pastel on paper laid down on canvas
27½ x 39 3/8in. (69.9 x 100cm.)
La Bergère près de la Rvière
signed 'L. Lhermitte' lower left
pastel on paper laid down on canvas
27½ x 39 3/8in. (69.9 x 100cm.)
Provenance
With Boussod Valadon & Cie, Paris
With Wallis, London, November 12, 1909
Private collection, Montreal, September 1910
Mrs. Josephine Eaton Burnside, Toronto
With Knoedler, New York
Matsukata Collection
Private Collection, Kobé
With Wallis, London, November 12, 1909
Private collection, Montreal, September 1910
Mrs. Josephine Eaton Burnside, Toronto
With Knoedler, New York
Matsukata Collection
Private Collection, Kobé
Literature
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Paris, 1991, p. 186, no. 137 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Kobé, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Millet, Corot, and the School of Barbizon, March-April, 1980. This exhibition travelled to: Tokyo, Seibu Museum; Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum.