Léon Augustin Lhermitte
(1844–1925) franska målare
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (France, 1844–1925) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Léon Augustin Lhermitte belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte was born in Mont-Saint-Père and died in Paris. Léon Augustin Lhermitte trained at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Léon Augustin Lhermitte studied under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Léon Augustin Lhermitte worked in Paris and London. Wikidata associates Léon Augustin Lhermitte with Naturalism. Léon Augustin Lhermitte became a member of Académie des beaux-arts, Société d'aquarellistes français, and Société nationale des beaux-arts. The awards include Commander of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Order of Leopold. The students included Auguste Desch and Walter Sargent.
The best-known works include ‘Death and the Woodcutter’ and ‘Paying the harvesters’. The catalogue has 45 works by Léon Augustin Lhermitte with free images. The dated works span the years 1871–1921. Works by Léon Augustin Lhermitte are held by several collections, among them drawings in the National Gallery of Art, The George W. Elkins Collection, 1924, Brooklyn Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Syrius Eberle, Peter Johann Theodor Janssen, Henri Zuber, Albert Neuhuys, and Hugo Kauffmann.