LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (1844-1925) THE VINES Charcoal on paper Bears workshop stamp (L.3890) lower right Charcoal on paper; stamped by the artist's workshop lower right 31 X 47 CM - 12 1/4 X 18 1/2 IN. EXHIBITION Château Thierry, Galerie Jean de La Fontaine, Drawings by Léon Lhermitte, March 17-April 28, 1990, no. 49 in the exhibition catalog. BIBLIOGRAPHY Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Catalogue raisonné, Éditions Cercles d'Art, Paris: 1991, reproduced and described under no. 442, p. 403. "Lhermitte preoccupies me too much this evening for me to go on talking about anything else. When I think of Millet or Lhermitte, I find modern art as powerful as the work of Michelangelo or Rembrandt." Van Gogh

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