"Procession à la Vierge de Mont-Saint-Père" , Léon-Augustin Lhermitte
ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING BY Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (Mont-Saint-Père 1844-1925 Paris)
Procession à la Vierge de Mont-Saint-Père
signed and dated 'L. Lhermitte/1885'
black chalk heightened with white on buff paper
14 5/8 x 20 in. (37.7 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Sold by the artist to C. Hayem for 600 francs.
Anonymous sale
Berne, Dobiaschofsky, 17 May 1973, lot 380.
Sold at Christie's auction, 26 January, 2011, lot 327/sale 2511.
Literature
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 456, no. 758.
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition universelle, 1889 (as la Première Communion, no. 1568).
Notes
The present drawing is described by Lhermitte in his manuscript Catalogue des ouvrages en peinture, dessin, aquarelle ou pastel exécutés par M. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (Archives Lhermitte): 'Devant la Vierge de la rue Haute, on a élevé un petit autel reposoir. Sur les marches, le prêtre donne la bénédiction, entouré du clergé. Quatre hommes portent un dais, des jeunes filles en blanc portent la bannière et des personnes suivent derrière. Quelques-unes sont agenouillées. Effet de soleil.'
Procession à la Vierge de Mont-Saint-Père
signed and dated 'L. Lhermitte/1885'
black chalk heightened with white on buff paper
14 5/8 x 20 in. (37.7 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Sold by the artist to C. Hayem for 600 francs.
Anonymous sale
Berne, Dobiaschofsky, 17 May 1973, lot 380.
Sold at Christie's auction, 26 January, 2011, lot 327/sale 2511.
Literature
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 456, no. 758.
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition universelle, 1889 (as la Première Communion, no. 1568).
Notes
The present drawing is described by Lhermitte in his manuscript Catalogue des ouvrages en peinture, dessin, aquarelle ou pastel exécutés par M. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (Archives Lhermitte): 'Devant la Vierge de la rue Haute, on a élevé un petit autel reposoir. Sur les marches, le prêtre donne la bénédiction, entouré du clergé. Quatre hommes portent un dais, des jeunes filles en blanc portent la bannière et des personnes suivent derrière. Quelques-unes sont agenouillées. Effet de soleil.'
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