The Harvesters

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1888/89

Léon Augustin Lhermitte
French, 1844-1925

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Title: The Harvesters
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1888–1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: L. Lhermitte
Dimensions: 52.9 × 77.3 cm (20 13/16 × 30 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1933.1139
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“News of Current Art,” Chicago Times-Herald (January 26, 1896), p. 36.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 211, no. 2135.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 161, no. 2121.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 185.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 260.
Mary Michele Hamel, “A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925),” (Ph.D. diss., Washington University, 1974), no. 141 (ill.).
Sophie Monneret, Dictionnaire international illustré l’impressionisme et son époque, vol. 1 (Paris: Denoël, 1976), p. 335.
Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925): Catalogue Raisonné (Paris: Cercle d’Art, 1991), p. 105, no. 48.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Paine Art Center and Gardens, Léon Hermitte, September 21–November 10, 1974, cat. 27.
Dallas Museum of Art, Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat, October 22, 2006–January 7, 2007, cat. 37.

William Schaus, New York, by April 17, 1893; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, April 17, 1893 for $4,250 [according to the receipt of sale, copy in curatorial file]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1914 [see Art Institute 1914]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Le Pelley Fonteny-Lhermitte cat rais 1991 48

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