Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

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Description

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
Les Dentellilères (The Lacemakers)
signed L. Lhermitte (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 1/2 by 24 3/4 in.
67.3 by 62.8 cm

Provenance

Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (no. 29548)
Sale: Wallis, July 9, 1909, lot 21403
M. Ambins (acquired in May 1910)
Edimbourg
Private Collection, Long Island, New York Sale: Lamond & Campbell, April 30, 1936, lot 46 (as Une famille paysanne)
V.S. Printing, Leth Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J.J. McIntyre, Virginia
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1909, no. 776

Literature

Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 144, no. 205, (with incorrect provenance), illustrated