1800s LEON LHERMITTE Antique Print “The Pay of the Reapers” Framed SIGNED COA$304.00
1800s LEON LHERMITTE Antique Print “The Pay of the Reapers” Framed SIGNED COA
$304.00
Artist: Leon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Title: Pay-Time in Harvest
Medium: Antique Heliogravure on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by a Master Engraver.
Year: 1891
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 6 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials
The pay of the reapers. The man with the scythe, a friend of Lhermitte’s, and a model in many of his paintings, has a pottery / pottery pot that is customary in the fields, a canteen or barrel tied to his belt. Also called: Half-moon barrel, shepherd’s barrel, barrel car and barrel of planchudo. Container of globular tendency closed in the superior part with a small and thin neck that in its end has an orifice of entrance and exit for the liquid. You can carry one or two handles on the sides of the neck.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (31 July 1844, Mont-Saint-Père – 28 July 1925, Paris) was a French realist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker. He was a student of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, he gained recognition after his show in the Paris Salon in 1864. His many awards include the French Legion of Honour (1884) and the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. Lhermitte’s innovative use of pastels won him the admiration of his contemporaries. Vincent van Gogh wrote that “If every month Le Monde Illustré published one of his compositions … it would be a great pleasure for me to be able to follow it. It is certain that for years I have not seen anything as beautiful as this scene by Lhermitte … I am too preoccupied by Lhermitte this evening to be able to talk of other things.” Lhermitte is represented in the collections of museums around the world, including Amsterdam, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Florence, Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Rheims, and Washington.
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