Laveuses près de la Marne(1903)

Categoría

Dibujo Acuarela

Técnicas

Pastel

Tipo de obra

Obra original

Firmada

inferior izquierdo

Medidas sin marco

17,75 x 13,75 in(45,09 x 34,93 cm)

Medidas con marco

27 x 23 in(68,58 x 58,42 cm)

Estado

excelente

Ref. catálogo razonado

M. Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte: catalogue raisonne, Paris, 1991, color plate 39, page 57 (illustrated) and #910, (illustrated) page 301.

Descripción de la obra

Provenance:
Boussod Valadon and Co. Paris, N. 20456
Nicolas
The Fine Art Society, Ltd. London 1984
Georges Marciano, Beverly Hills, CA
Private collection, Palm Desert, CA

In a letter to his brother Theo in 1885, Vincent Van Gogh observed: “Lhermitte’s a master of the figure. He’s able to do what he likes with it. There’s something astonishing and masterly in everything he does.”

Washing laundry on the banks of the Marne was a favorite subject for the artist, but this composition is among his most striking. While the women’s labor is hard, the cadence of their movement appears almost dancelike as dusk approaches.

Léon Augustin LHERMITTE

(1844-1925)