Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)

Le Bateau

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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Le Bateau
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33½ x 45¾ in. (85.1 x 116.2 cm.)
Painted in 1902
Provenance
with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, no. 27712.
Lomond Castel Hotel, Arden by Alexandra, Dunbartonshire.
Anonymous sale, Christies, London, 20 April 1979, lot 92.
with Noortman & Brod, London.
Private Collection, The Netherlands.
Literature
M. M. Hamel, A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925), Saint Louis, 1974, C 256, no. 253 (illustrated).
M. Le Pelley-Fonteny, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925) catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 118, no. 80 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Noortman and Brod, Autour des Impressionistes, An Exhibition of Barbizon and Pre-Impressionist Paintings, March-April 1983, no. 26.
Sale room notice
Please note that the condition report has recently changed. It reads in full:
Lined. The surface is stable. Under the UV light there are areas of cosmetic retouching to the dark regions around the tree line, boat and reeds. Subject to the foregoing the work is ready to hang.

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