Washerwomen on the Banks of the Marne, 1898

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 99.06 × 124.46 cm (39 × 49 in.)

framed: 141.61 × 167.64 × 13.97 cm (55 3/4 × 66 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.30

Artists / Makers

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (painter) French, 1844 - 1925

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Inscription

lower left: L. L'Hermitte / 1898

Provenance

(Boussod et Valadon, Paris); purchased May 1898 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], Paris and New York, as Laveuses le soir;[1] bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting is stock number 25401 in the Goupil & Cie/Boussod, Valadon & Cie Records, Dieterle Family, Records of French art galleries, 1846-1986, accession number 900239, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Goupil & Cie/Boussod, Valadon & Cie Stockbook 14, 1895-1901, page 165 of the stockbook.

Associated Names

Boussod et Valadon
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1898: Salon, Paris, 1898, no. 776, repro., as Les laveuses.

1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, no. 375, as Washerwomen.

1971: Loan to display with the permanent collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington, 1971-1978.

1983: La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 11, repro.

2011: A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 106, no. 9.