Léon Augustin LHERMITTE (1844-1925)
"Alley of historic Tours", 1876
Lead pencil drawing
Titled bottom left "Tours"
Not signed
22 x 29 cm.
Referenced in the Catalogue Raisonné of Monique Le Pelley Fontenay Léon Lhermitte (Paris, 1991) p.352, n°176.
Provenance:
Collection of the artist
Galerie Cardo Paris
Galerie Dudley Londres
Collection privée Londres.
(The work is framed and the drawn part is isolated, which means that the original brown paper became clear, which is more pleasing visually. Only the covered margins have remained brown.)
Des oeuvres de Léon Augustin LHERMITTE sont conservées dans les musées suivants :
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Le musée d'Orsay (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Crocker Art Museum (The USA)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Winnipeg Art Gallery (Canada)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
The Dahesh Museum of art (The USA)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (New Zealand)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
Memorial Art Gallery Rochester (The USA)
Huntington Gallery of Art (The USA)
Musée des beaux arts de Carcassonne (France)
A few sales results on less finished works:
Les dégustateurs d'eau de vie (c.1872) pencil/paper 2684 € Farsetti Prato Italie 29/10/11
Femme et enfants dans la basse-cour, drawing 2400 € Conan Lyon 27/3/2011
Enfant dormant (1882) graphite pencil 31x48 cm 1525 € Beaussant-Lefevre Paris 22/5/92