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LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (FRENCH, 1844-1925)

Lot 12
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Lot 12 | LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (FRENCH, 1844-1925)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (FRENCH, 1844-1925)

Le réveil du faucheur

signed and dated 'L. Lhermitte/1899' (lower right)

oil on canvas

30 ¾ x 39 ¾ in. (78.1 x 101 cm.)





Provenance

The artist.

with Boussoud, Valadon et Cie., Paris, acquired directly from the above, 19 April 1899.

with Arthur Tooth & Son, London, acquired directly from the above, 19 April 1899.

with Thomas McLean's Gallery, London, by October 1901.

George MacCulloch (1848-1907) and Mary Agnes Coutts Michie (1857-1945), London.

Their sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 1913, lot 31, as Noonday Rest.

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, acquired at the above sale.

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, Boussoud, Valadon et Cie., Paris, and Wallis & Son, owned jointly, acquired directly from the above, 5 June 1918.

H. Young, 1918.

Annie Rae Poth (1907-2001), Galveston, TX.

St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, TX, gifted by the above.

Their sale; Christie's, New York, 30 October 2002, lot 26.

Acquired at the above sale by Arnold and Anne Ulnick Gumowitz, New York.



Literature

A. Pallier, La Liberté, Paris, 29 April 1899, p. 2.

O. De Gourcuff, 'Le salon de 1899', Estafette, Paris, 30 April 1899, n.p.

G. Geoffroy, 'Les salons de 1899', Le Journal, Paris, 30 April 1899, p. 1.

G. Mercy, 'Les salons', Libre Parole. supplément, Paris, 30 April 1899.

De la Cymaise, Le Soir, Brussels, 1 May 1899.

O. Uzanne, 'Société nationale des beaux-arts', L'Écho de Paris, Paris, 1 May 1899, p. 1.

H. Rochefort, 'Rochefort Reviews Beaux Arts Salon', New York Herald, New York, 1 May 1899, p. 9.

Torpedo, Le Jour, Paris, 1 May 1899.

Valensol, 'Le salon de la Société nationale', Le Petit Parisien, Paris, 1 May 1899, p. 2.

H. Ayraud-Degeorge, 'Les salon de 1899', L'Intransigeant, Paris, 2 May 1899, p. 2.

Mécène, L'autorité, Paris, 2 May 1899, n.p.

'Le Salon de 1899', La Nation, Paris, 2 May 1899, n.p.

Le Progrès de l'Aisne, Saint-Quentin, 2 May 1899.

'Les artistes de l'aisne', La Guetteur, 5 May 1899, Saint-Quentin, n.p.

G. Morot, La Presse, Paris, 7 May 1899.

H. Bernard, Union Républicaine, Roubaix, 10 May 1899.

H. Dac, 'Les salons de 1899', L'Univers, Paris, 15 May 1899, as Réveil.

H. Eon, La Plume, Paris, 15 May 1899.

R. de la Sizeranne, La Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, 15 May 1899.

J. d'Esnitot, 'Beaux-arts, les salons de 1899', La mode de style, Paris, 17 May 1899, p. 260.

Guillemot, Le Messager de Paris, Paris, 27 May 1899.

F. Mair, Revue Populaire des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 27 May 1899.

C. Das, 'Salon de peinture', Le Petit Caporal, Paris, 5 June 1899, p. 2.

La Petite Loire, Saumur, 8 June 1899.

Quolibet, 'Salon de la Société nationale,' Le Tintamarre, Paris, 11 June 1899, n.p.

O. Merson, 'Les salons de 1899', Le Monde Illustré, Paris, 1 July 1899, p. 3.

'Les Livres', L'Intransigeant, Paris, 8 July 1899, p. 3.

E. Maton, 'Les salons', Revue Septentrionale, Paris, 1899, p. 141.

A. Alexandre, Figaro-Salon, Paris, 1899, p. 85, illustrated with the engraving.

A. Proust, Salon of 1899, New York and Paris, 1899, ill. 72, illustrated with the engraving.

'Forthcoming Sale of Modern Pictures', The New York Herald, Paris, 6 April 1913, p. 8, as Noonday Rest.

'The McCulloch Collection', The Athenaeum, London, 31 May 1913, p. 598, as Noonday Rest.

'In the Sale Room', The Connoisseur, London, May-August 1913, p. 192, as Noonday Rest.

M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925): catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, pp. 138-139, no. 172, illustrated, as Le réveil du faucheur ou le repos du moissonneur.



Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1899, no. 949.

London, Thomas McLean's Gallery, Annual Winter Exhibition, October 1901, no. 21, as Noonday Rest.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Modern Works in Painting and Sculpture Forming the Collection of the Late George McCulloch, Esq., 4 January-13 March 1909, no. 194, as Noonday Rest.

Glasgow, The Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901, no. 1271, as Harvesters.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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