Study of a standing woman turned to the left, looking down, holding a sickle, for 'La Moisson'

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LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (MONT-SAINT-PÈRE 1844-1925 PARIS)
Study of a standing woman turned to the left, looking down, holding a sickle, for 'La Moisson'
signed (?) 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right)
charcoal on buff coloured paper, with indistinct watermark
18 x 11 ¾ in. (45.7 x 29.5 cm.)

Exhibited

Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dibujos siglos XIX y XX, October 1959, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

This is a study for the central figure in Lhermitte's oil at La Moisson Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne (inv. D.891.1.50, M. Le Pelley Fonteney, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 90, no. 6, ill.). A study for another figure in the painting was sold at Christie's, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 254.

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