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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description
- Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
- Le Vieux Moulin
- signed L. Lhermitte (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 29 by 37 3/4 in.
- 73.6 by 95.8 cm
Provenance
Knoedler, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1907)
Henry Hornblower, Boston (acquired from the above in 1910)
Thence by descent to the present owner, his granddaughter
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1907, no. 787
Literature
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 142, no. 197, (with incorrect provenance) illustrated
Catalogue Note
In 1907 the aritst completed a pastel version of the present work titled Le départ du berger (see: Le Pelley Fonteny, p. 251, no. 425, illustrated).