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The Harvesters
Léon Augustin Lhermitte · 1888–89
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- “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.
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