Lot 42
  • 42

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • Portrait of a Man
  • signed  L. Lhermitte (upper right)
  • oil on canvas

  • 25 1/2 by 19 7/8 in.
  • 65 by 50.5 cm

Provenance

Collection of Madame Quitton

Literature

Mary M. Hamel, A French Artist, Léon Lhermitte, PhD dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974, C 85, cat. no. 82
Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 96, no. 32, illustrated

Condition

Unlined, diagonal veins of lifting in upper right corner; under UV: spot of inpainting along sleeve in lower right corner.
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Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1881.