Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
Cour du vieux logis a Bourges
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower left)
pastel on paper, laid onto canvas
55 x 46cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
With J. Allard, 1920.
Mr. Wallis.
Private collection, Canada.

Exhibited
Paris, Galeries J. Allard, Les Pastel de Leon Lhermitte, 1920, no. 20.

Literature
M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Catalogue raisonne de Leon-Augustin Lhermitte, Editions Cercle D'Art, Paris, 1991, no. 653, p. 272, illustrated (described as unsigned).

We are grateful to the Comité Lhermitte for confirming the authenticity of the present lot on first-hand inspection. The work will be included in the Supplement of the Catalogue Raisonne of the Artist, now in preparation by the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and Monique Le Pellet-Fonteny.
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