The Weaver's Cottage, c. 1903

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Merritt Porter Dyke in Honor of Andrew Robison

Catalogue Raisonné

Le Pelley Fonteny 1991: no. 482 Le Pelley Fonteny 1991

Accession Number

2016.130.2

Artists / Makers

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (artist) French, 1844 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black pastel: L'Hermitte

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

Benamou, Albert
Drouot, Hôtel
Dyke, Merritt P.
Fontanille Collection
Frederick Thon Gallery
Schweitzer Gallery, M.R.

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