Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction

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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: 18441925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, pp. 476–77. no. 891, reproduced (as Jeune Tisserand). 

The Hague, Galerie Schuller, February–May 1911, no. 3.