Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005712The Lectern
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, Paris [according to Fonteny 1991]. Henry Studdy Theobald (died 1934), London. Sold, Christie’s, London, April 12, 1910, Theobald sale, lot 174, as "Church Interior; Carol Singers; and Others," to Brown and Phillips [annotated sale catalogue]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 2, 1971, lot 24, to de la Fuente [sale catalogue price list]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 248. Given by an anonymous donor to the Art Institute, 1997.
Exhibition history
London, Dudley Gallery, "Exhibition of White and Black," cat. 140. Salon of 1872, cat. 1030.
Publications
The Times (23 June, 1974). Mary Michele Hamel, A French Artist: Leon Lhermitte (Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974), no. 23. Monique Lepelley Fonteny, Leon Augustin Lhermitte: Catalogue Raisonné (Paris, 1991), no. 648 (ill).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte / French, 1844-1925
- Date
- 1871
- Medium
- Black chalk with smudging, scraping and erasing with traces of white chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 56.5 × 41.2 cm (22 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of an Anonymous Donor
- Accession no.
- 1997.434
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