The Weaver's Cottage

c. 1903

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Associated Names
Léon Augustin Lhermitte

Artist, French, 1844 - 1925

This is a painting of an interior scene in a weaving workshop. The image features a dimly lit room with two large windows providing scattered daylight. In the foreground, a wooden spinning wheel is depicted, with a person seated at it. The background shows a large loom stretching across the room. The wooden beams and rough-hewn furniture give the room an authentic, rustic charm.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel, conté crayon, and charcoal on tan paper, mounted on canvas (on wooden stretcher)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Merritt Porter Dyke in Honor of Andrew Robison

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38.3 × 48.5 cm (15 1/16 × 19 1/8 in.) (approximate dimensions, measured in housing

  • Accession Number

    2016.130.2

  • 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

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