The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Seated Peasant Woman

Seated Peasant Woman

c. 1885
(French, 1844–1925)
Overall: 49.2 x 40 cm (19 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Lhermitte's work portrays simple peasants working in harmony with a bountiful natural environment without reference to industrial development, mechanization of farm work, and the depopulation of the countryside. His sturdy images of Champagne's rural life have a sober, unsentimental character in which the peasant figures are neither tidied nor prettified. The artist achieved his most personal expression in his charcoal drawings which first achieved critical success in London where they were exhibited from the early 1870s. By the 1880s, his drawings had gained wide popularity in France.
  • Fischer-Kiener Galerie, Paris, 1980; Estate of Muriel Butkin
  • Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
    French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
  • {{cite web|title=Seated Peasant Woman|url=false|author=Léon Augustin Lhermitte|year=c. 1885|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.375