The Weaver's Cottage
c. 1903
Artist, French, 1844 - 1925

Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel, conté crayon, and charcoal on tan paper, mounted on canvas (on wooden stretcher)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 38.3 × 48.5 cm (15 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.) (approximate dimensions, measured in housing
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Accession
2016.130.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Le Pelley Fonteny 1991: no. 482
Le Pelley Fonteny 1991
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Hôtel Drouot, 19 November 1934); Fontanille Collection, Bourges; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, 23 January 1974); (Schweitzer Gallery, New York); (Frederick Thon Gallery, Toronto); (Albert Benamou, Paris, 1987); Philippe Cazeau, Paris. (C.G. Boerner LLC, New York, by 2005); Merritt P. Dyke, Atlanta; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1990
Maitres du XIXe siecle et du XXe siecle. Galerie Odermatt, Paris, 1990s? (n.d.) no. 12.
2019
The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1991
Le Pelley Fonteny, Monique. Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1991: no. 482
Inscriptions
lower left in black pastel: L'Hermitte
Wikidata ID
Q64592953