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AT-00011532The Apple Market at Landerneau
About the Artwork
This drawing is one of more than 50 related to the artist's elaborate painting The Apple Market at Landerneau, exhibited at the Salon of 1878 (see photo). The scene is one of several that Lhermitte made focusing on peasants from Brittany, a region in northwestern France that was known for its picturesque traditional dress and its religious piety.
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in brown ink: L. Lhermitte; verso, upper left, in graphite: Le marché aux pommes / à Landerneau
Provenance
?-?: Studio of the artist ?-1984: (Galerie Kiener-Fischer, Paris, sold to Mrs. Muriel Butkin) 1984-2008: Mrs. Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2008-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
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
- 1878
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.2 x 38.9 cm (10 11/16 x 15 5/16 in.); Image: 26.6 x 27.7 cm (10 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.356
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