19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Property of a Private American Collection
Léon Lhermitte
Wheat Reapers (Faucheurs du Blé)
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private American Collection
Léon Lhermitte
French 1844 - 1925
Wheat Reapers (Faucheurs du Blé)
signed lower left: L.LHermitte
pastel on paper
sheet: 13 ¼ by 17 ½ in.; 33.7 by 44.4 cm (sight)
framed: 22 ¾ by 26 ¾ in.; 57.8 by 68 cm
With Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (no. 18609);
With Georges Petit, Paris;
W.C. Honeyman, Esq. Glasgow;
By whose executors sold, Christies, London, 28 April 1967, lot 58;
Purchased from the above by ‘Hompe;’
Private collection, Delaware;
Sale, Pook and Pook, Pennsylvania, 6 October 2023;
Where acquired by the present owner.
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, p. 230, no. 390, illustrated (as Gerbes en Tas, Trois Figures).