Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925). La bénédicité au Chaussin près de Vichy (The blessing at Chaussin near Vichy)...

Description

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
La bénédicité au Chaussin près de Vichy (The blessing at Chaussin near Vichy), 1897
Pastel on paper laid on canvas
19-3/4 x 27-1/2 inches (50.2 x 69.9 cm) (sheet)
Signed and dated lower left: L Lhermitte 1897


PROVENANCE:
Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris, no. 18254;
Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Collection of John Balli of London, May 22, 1913;
Private collection, France;
Mr. Pei-Tsang Sun, France;
James Francis Trezza, New York;
Private collection, California, acquired from the above, 2006.

EXHIBITED:
Exposition des Pastellistes, Paris, 1897, no. 89.

LITERATURE:
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, 1844-1925: Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 227, no. 368, illustrated.

In 1897 Lhermitte also painted an oil of this subject, which he later exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris.



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