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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
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Description
- Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
- At the Fountain
- signed L. Lhermitte and dated 1895 (lower left)
oil on canvas
- 31 by 40 in.
- 78.7 by 101.6 cm
Provenance
Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris
G. Oahman
M. Knoedler and Co., New York (by 1905)
William K. Bixby (sold: Parke-Bernet, New York, October 23, 1957, lot 47)
Private Collection, United States (by 1982)
Noortman and Brod Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1983
G. Oahman
M. Knoedler and Co., New York (by 1905)
William K. Bixby (sold: Parke-Bernet, New York, October 23, 1957, lot 47)
Private Collection, United States (by 1982)
Noortman and Brod Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1983
Exhibited
Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1895, no. 803
Literature
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1991, pp. 43, 115, no. 67, pl. 26, illustrated
Catalogue Note
According to Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, the present work was painted at the fountain of Neuve, in the artist's hometown of Mont-Sant-Père. It was the first of a series the artist continued to explore until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.