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Property of a Private American Collector

Léon Lhermitte

Wheat Reapers (Faucheurs du Blé)

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October 15, 06:06 PM GMT

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Property of a Private American Collector

Léon Lhermitte 

French 1844 - 1925

Wheat Reapers (Faucheurs du Blé)


signed lower left: L.LHermitte 

pastel on paper 

sheet: 13 ¼ by 17 ½ in.; 33.7 by 44.5 cm (sight)

framed: 22 ¾ by 26 ¾ in.; 57.8 by 67.9 cm

With Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (inv. no. 18609)

With Galerie Georges Petit, Paris

W.C. Honeyman, Esq. Glasgow

By whose executors sold, Christies, London, 28 April 1967, lot 58

Purchased from the above by "Hompe"

Private Collection, Delaware

Sale, Pook and Pook, Pennsylvania, 6 October 2023

Where acquired by the present owner

Monique le Pelley Fonteny, Léon-Augustin L'Hermitte (1844-1925): catalogue raisonné, Paris 1991, p. 230, no. 390, illustrated (as Gerbes en Tas, Trois Figures)