European Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures
European Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures
Lot Closed
October 15, 05:07 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE
French
1844 - 1925
LES SABOTS DE NOËL (LE NOËL DES ENFANTS)
signed L. Lhermitte (lower right)
charcoal on paper
sheet: 18½ by 11⅝ in.; 47 by 29.5 cm
framed: 29⅞ by 22½ in.; 76 by 57 cm
Dalloz Collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1913, lot 26
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 29, 1955, lot 19
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 4, 1969
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 23, 1988
Galerie Lefevre-Warme, Paris
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 25, 1994, lot 202, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale
Mary M. Hamel, A French Artist, Léon Lhermitte, PhD dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974, C 112, cat. no. 109
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844-1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 450, no. 726, illustrated p. 450
We would like to thank Annie-Paule Quinsac for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work.
The present work, executed in November 1883, is one in a series of eight drawings that illustrated André Theuriet's Noël au village, published in the supplement to the January 1, 1884 edition of Le Monde illustré.