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Seated Peasant Woman

c. 1885
(French, 1844–1925)
France, 19th century
charcoal
Support: Off-white laid paper
Overall: 49.2 x 40 cm (19 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.375
Location: not on view
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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.
Seated Peasant Woman

Seated Peasant Woman

c. 1885

Léon Augustin Lhermitte

(French, 1844–1925)
France, 19th century

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