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LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (FRENCH, 1844-1925)
Les ébarbeuses de dentelles
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower left), inscribed and signed '"les dentellières"/Leon Lhermitte' (on the reverse)
pastel on paper on canvas
1434 x 1614 in. (37.5 x 41.3 cm.)
Executed in 1908.
Provenance
with Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris.
with Wallis & Son, The French Gallery, London, 30 January 1909.
J. van Masterbroek, Edinburgh, acquired directly from the above, October 1910.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 22 April 1992, lot 310, as Les dentellières.
with Jean-François Heim, Paris.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 8 March 1997.
Literature
The Studio, vol. XLVII, June 1909, p. 2, illustrated, as Les dentellières.
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925): catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 253, no. 536, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, The French Gallery, Selected pictures by J. Israels, L. Lhermitte, M. Maris, H. Harpignies, 1909, no. 58, as Lacemakers.
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