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The Lectern
Léon Augustin Lhermitte · 1871
Provenance
Ownership history
- Durand-Ruel, Paris [according to Fonteny 1991]. Henry Studdy Theobald (died 1934), London. Sold, Christie’s, London, April 12, 1910, Theobald sale, lot 174, as "Church Interior; Carol Singers; and Others," to Brown and Phillips [annotated sale catalogue]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 2, 1971, lot 24, to de la Fuente [sale catalogue price list]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 248. Given by an anonymous donor to the Art Institute, 1997.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Dudley Gallery, "Exhibition of White and Black," cat. 140.
- Salon of 1872, cat. 1030.
Literature
Published references
- The Times (23 June, 1974).
- Mary Michele Hamel, A French Artist: Leon Lhermitte (Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, 1974), no. 23.
- Monique Lepelley Fonteny, Leon Augustin Lhermitte: Catalogue Raisonné (Paris, 1991), no. 648 (ill).
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