The Reapers
The Charles Deering Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1867
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.5 × 25.6 cm (5 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.8 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 41.2 cm (11 5/8 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Léon Lhermitte
Artist
Léon Lhermitte was a French painter and draftsman renowned for scenes of rural labor and peasant life rendered with precise observation and technical mastery. Working primarily in oils and charcoal during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he depicted agricultural workers, harvests, and village interiors with a realist sensibility that combined documentary accuracy with subtle psychological depth. His large-scale compositions and tonal refinement established him as a leading figure in the representation of rural France during the Third Republic.
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Quai au Sable, Chartèves
1904 · pastel on gray wove paper
The Harvesters
1888 · Oil on canvas
Tuileries Gardens
1884 · etching
Seated Peasant Woman
1880 · charcoal
The Apple Market at Landerneau
1878 · pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
Interior of a Butcher Shop
1876 · charcoal and black chalk heightened with white chalk (media continue onto secondary support)
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- Léon Lhermitte
- Year
- 1867
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.5 × 25.6 cm (5 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.); Plate: 19.9 × 27.8 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 41.2 cm (11 5/8 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1867-156369
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified