Pêcheur et sa famille

Details

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925)
Pêcheur et sa famille
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower left)
pastel on paper
29 5/8 x 23½ in. (75.3 x 59.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1912

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's Glasgow, 23 May 1996, lot 626.

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Lot Essay

This pastel closely resembles the painting Pêcheur et sa famille, documented in M. Le Pelley Fonteny's Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Paris 1991, no. 103, p. 123. Painted in 1912, this oil is now in the collection of the Kircaldy Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland.

We are grateful to Monique Le Pelley Fonteny for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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