Location

not on view

Description

This drawing is one of more than 50 related to the artist's elaborate painting The Apple Market at Landerneau, exhibited at the Salon of 1878 (see photo). The scene is one of several that Lhermitte made focusing on peasants from Brittany, a region in northwestern France that was known for its picturesque traditional dress and its religious piety.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in brown ink: L. Lhermitte; verso, upper left, in graphite: Le marché aux pommes / à Landerneau

Provenance

?-?

Studio of the artist

?-1984

(Galerie Kiener-Fischer, Paris, sold to Mrs. Muriel Butkin)

1984-2008

Mrs. Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2008-

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Le Pelley Fonteny, Monique. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925): Catalogue Raisonné. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1991. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 354, no. 183

Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Referenced: cat. no. 50, p 110-111, Reproduced: p. 111

Exhibition history

French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).