Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction
The Property of a Gentleman
Léon Lhermitte
The Young Weaver
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
Léon Lhermitte
Mont-Saint-Père 1844–1925 Paris
The Young Weaver
signed lower right: L. Lhermitte
charcoal on paper
unframed: 32.5 x 44.7 cm.; 12¾ x 17½ in.
framed: 61 x 73 cm.; 24 x 28 in.
With Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris, 1906;
With French Gallery, London, 1906;
With Galerie Schuller, The Hague, 1911;
With Dowell Gallery, London, 1916;
From whom acquired by Vernon Wethered (1865–1952), United Kingdom;
Thence by inheritance and descent.
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844–1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, pp. 476–77. no. 891, reproduced (as Jeune Tisserand).
The Hague, Galerie Schuller, February–May 1911, no. 3.
