Lot 38
  • 38

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
  • Laveuses à Mezy
  • signed L. Lhermitte (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 29 3/4 in.
  • 50.8 by 75.6 cm

Provenance

Knoedler, New York (1914)
The Estelle Doheny Collection (and sold, Christie's Camarillo, California, February 3, 1988, lot 189W, illustrated)
George Marciano, Beverly Hills
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Francis Briest, November 15, 1990, lot 234
Sale: Christie's, New York, October 25, 2006, lot 151, illustrated
Willow Gallery, London
Acquired from the above

Literature

Monique Le Pelley-Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 117, no. 75-1

Condition

The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This painting is in very good and finished condition. The canvas is not lined and is well stretched. The paint layer is clean and lightly varnished. No retouches are apparent. The work should be hung in its current state.
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