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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Les Amoureux or Idylle
Details
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Les Amoureux or Idylle
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right)
charcoal heightened with white gouache on beige paper laid down on board
12 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (31.4 x 48.6 cm.)
Executed in June 1884.
Les Amoureux or Idylle
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right)
charcoal heightened with white gouache on beige paper laid down on board
12 3/8 x 19 1/8 in. (31.4 x 48.6 cm.)
Executed in June 1884.
Provenance
The artist.
Paul Dalloz, acquired directly from the above, June 1884.
Mariano de Ezcurra, acquired in Paris, circa 1928.
By descent to the present owner.
Paul Dalloz, acquired directly from the above, June 1884.
Mariano de Ezcurra, acquired in Paris, circa 1928.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
'Les mois rustiques,' Le Monde illustré, No. 1474, Paris, 27 June 1885, pp. 470-471, illustrated between pp. 462-467.
M. M. Hammel, A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925), St. Louis, 1974, pp. 119-123.
M. Le Pelley Fonteney, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, pp. 452-453, no. 737, illustrated.
M. M. Hammel, A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925), St. Louis, 1974, pp. 119-123.
M. Le Pelley Fonteney, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, pp. 452-453, no. 737, illustrated.
Engraved
Clément-Édouard Bellenger, 1885, as Idylle.