LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE | LES SABOTS DE NOËL (LE NOËL DES ENFANTS)

Dalloz Collection, Paris 

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1913, lot 26

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 29, 1955, lot 19

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 4, 1969

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 23, 1988

Galerie Lefevre-Warme, Paris

Sale: Christie's, New York, May 25, 1994, lot 202, illustrated

Acquired at the above sale

Mary M. Hamel, A French Artist, Léon Lhermitte, PhD dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974, C 112, cat. no. 109

Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: 1844-1925: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 450, no. 726, illustrated p. 450

We would like to thank Annie-Paule Quinsac for kindly confirming the authenticity of this work. 

The present work, executed in November 1883, is one in a series of eight drawings that illustrated André Theuriet's Noël au village, published in the supplement to the January 1, 1884 edition of Le Monde illustré.