Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011052Quai au Sable, Chartèves
About the Artwork
Like many of Léon-Augustin Lhermitte’s pastels, this drawing shows the Marne River in northeastern France. Such artworks were created both because of the artist’s attraction to the subject and due to their marketability. Drawing from memory, Lhermitte worked in his studio, producing a complex range of marks with pastel crayon on densely textured paper and even manipulating the powdery material with brushes and sponges. Although his comparatively traditional style did not align with artistic movements of his time, it was hugely popular around 1900—especially in the United States, where the hardworking laborers that populated his landscapes appealed to industrialist collectors.
Inscriptions
inscribed, lower right, in black pastel: L. Lhermitte / 1904
Provenance
after 1904-by 1919: (Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris) ?-by 1976: (Wallis, London) 1976: (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 14, 1976. no. 287, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York) 1976: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Noah L. Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) 1976-1980: Noah L. Butkin [1918–1980], Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1980-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925)
- Date
- 1904
- Medium
- pastel on gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- Framed: 94.3 x 124.2 x 8 cm (37 1/8 x 48 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Overall: 69 x 99 cm (27 3/16 x 39 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1980.269
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