Lot 508
  • 508

LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE | Pêcheur et sa famille

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • Pêcheur et sa famille
  • signed L. Lhermitte (lower right)
  • pastel on stretched paper
  • 17 3/4 by 12 3/4 in.
  • 45.1 by 32.4 cm

Provenance

Sale: Waddington’s, Toronto, December 23, 2011, lot 175, illustrated
Private Collection, Ontario 

Condition

Pastel on paper stretched on canvas. There are artist pinholes scattered at all four extreme edges and minor bumping and pulling in the upper corners.
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Catalogue Note

This pastel is likely a preparatory work for Lhermitte's painting The Fisherman, now in the collection of Kirkcaldy Galleries in Scotland. 

The Comité Lhermitte has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the Supplement of the Catalogue Raisonné now in preparation by the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny.