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LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (1844-1925) THE EVE Charcoal on paper Bears workshop stamp (L.3890) lower right Charcoal on paper; stamped by the artist's workshop lower right 31 X 45 CM - 12 1/4 X 17 3/4 IN. EXHIBITION Château Thierry, Galerie Jean de La Fontaine, Drawings by Léon Lhermitte, March 17-April 28, 1990, no. 7 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. 77 p. 329. RELATED WORKS Léon Augusin Lhermitte (1844-1925) La Veillée, 1873, oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1873 Salon under no. 963. "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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LÉON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE (1844-1925) THE EVE Charcoal on paper Bears workshop stamp (L.3890) lower right Charcoal on paper; stamped by the artist's workshop lower right 31 X 45 CM - 12 1/4 X 17 3/4 IN. EXHIBITION Château Thierry, Galerie Jean de La Fontaine, Drawings by Léon Lhermitte, March 17-April 28, 1990, no. 7 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. 77 p. 329. RELATED WORKS Léon Augusin Lhermitte (1844-1925) La Veillée, 1873, oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1873 Salon under no. 963. "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
