Lot 48
  • 48

LÉON LHERMITTE | Les Lavandières à Villenauxe

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Léon Lhermitte
  • Les Lavandières à Villenauxe
  • signed L. Lhermitte. lower right
  • pastel on paper
  • 43 by 55.5cm., 17 by 22in.

Provenance

Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (stock no. 17231)
Lecointe collection (purchased from the above)
Bernadette et Jacques Merle

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition des Pastellistes, 1895

Literature

C. H., in La France nouvelle, 17 April 1895
Henry Cuénot, l'Observateur français, 18 April 1895
Havard, La France illustrée, 20 April 1895
F. Polak, l'Art et la mode, 20 April 1895
A. E. Guyon-Verax, Le Journal des artistes, 19 May 1895, p. 1038, cited
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844-1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 222, no. 347, catalogued & illustrated (as whereabouts unknown)

Condition

The artist's sheet has been fully laid on canvas, thus preventing inspection of the back, and is well preserved. Colours are bright and strong. There is no visible sign of restoration. This work appears to be in good original condition and is ready to hang. Presented in a decorative gilt frame, glazed. Reds are less warm in reality than in the catalogue illustration.
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