19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property from a West Coast Private Collection
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
Shepards Return
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a West Coast Private Collection
Léon Lhermitte
French 1844 - 1925
Shepherds Return
signed lower left L.Lhermitte
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 ½ by 36 ½ in.; 72.4 by 92.7 cm
framed: 37 by 44 ½ in.; 94 by 113 cm
With Boussod, Valadon & Cie., (no. 29547);
With Knoedler & Co.;
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 12 June 1973, no. 421, illustrated (as Returning Home) (incorrectly listed as no. 42 in catalogue raisonné);
With Williams & Son, London;
From whom acquired by the present owner.
De Celi, Gazette de France, 14 April 1909.
J. Claude, le Petit Parisien, 14 April 1909.
H. Fritsch-Estrengin, New York Herald, 14 April 1909.
C. le Senne, l'Événement, 14 April 1909.
L. Lumet, Paris Journal, 14 April 1909.
La France, 14 April 1909.
Le Grand National, 14 April 1909.
Griffe, Paris Sport, 15 April 1909.
Paris Journal, 15 April 1909.
Tout-Paris, le Gaulois, 16 April 1909.
Echo du Nord, 16 April 1909.
Progrès du Nord, 16 April 1909.
W. Rogers, la Presse, 18 April 1909.
H. Bernard, Union Républicaine, 25 April 1909.
L. Quenechon, Journal d'Asnières, 25 April 1909.
H. Derri, Journal du carré, 30 April 1909.
C. Bousset, la Croix illustrée, 2 May 1909.
E. Langlade, Courrier du Pas-de-Calais, 6 May 1909.
C. Le Senn, le Ménestrel, 8 May 1909.
E. Hoffman, Journal des artistes, 9 May 1909.
Le Tintamarre, 16 May 1909.
G. Stenger, Argus soissonnais, 20 May 1909.
Courrier de la Plata (Buenos Aires), 20 May 1909.
A. Acremant, Artésien (Arras), 13 June 1909.
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, p. 144, no. 208, illustrated (as Troupeau près de la la Ferme).
CAT RAIS?
Paris, Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1909, no. 775
London, Williams & Son, Exhibition of Paintings by 19th-Century French Artists, 3-15 June, no. 26
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Léon Lhermitte: An International Exhibition, 21 September-10 November 1974, no. 47
Lhermitte executed an almost identical replica of this Salon painting in 1909, which was purchased by Schaus for $300. The present work was purchased by Knoedler for 27,0000 francs.