Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011527Seated Peasant Woman
About the Artwork
Lhermitte's work portrays simple peasants working in harmony with a bountiful natural environment without reference to industrial development, mechanization of farm work, and the depopulation of the countryside. His sturdy images of Champagne's rural life have a sober, unsentimental character in which the peasant figures are neither tidied nor prettified. The artist achieved his most personal expression in his charcoal drawings which first achieved critical success in London where they were exhibited from the early 1870s. By the 1880s, his drawings had gained wide popularity in France.
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left, in black chalk: L. Lhermitte; watermark, verso, lower right corner: Lalanne
Provenance
Fischer-Kiener Galerie, Paris, 1980; Estate of Muriel Butkin
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002). Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
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
- c. 1885
- Medium
- charcoal
- Dimensions
- Overall: 49.2 x 40 cm (19 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.375
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