LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE | LE CHARRON

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October 22, 05:21 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a New York Private Collector

LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE

French

1844 - 1925

LE CHARRON

signed L. Lhermitte and dated 1883 (lower left)

charcoal on paper

17½ by 22 in.

44.5 by 55.9 cm

The Comité Lhermitte has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the Supplement of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist now in preparation by the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny.

Please note there is updated provenance and literature available in the online catalogue entry for this lot. The Comité Lhermitte has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the Supplement of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist now in preparation by the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny.

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (acquired directly from the artist, September 1883)

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1996, lot 49, illustrated

Acquired at the above sale

Paul Lefort, "L'exposition nationale de 1883; Les dessins- les pastels," Gazette de Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 1883, no. 28, p. 463

Javel Firmin, L'Evénement, Paris, September 18, 1883

Le Senne, Le Télégraphe, October 6, 1883

Michel André, Le Parlement, October 23, 1883

Flamans Henri, La Verité, Paris, October 26, 1883

Le Moniteur des Arts, November 9, 1883

Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844-1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 484, no. 974, not illustrated

Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, September 15, 1883, no. 826