LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE | LES DÉGUSTATEURS D'EAU-DE-VIE DE MARC OU L 'ALAMBIC

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
LÉON-AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE
French
1844 - 1925
LES DÉGUSTATEURS D'EAU-DE-VIE DE MARC OU L 'ALAMBIC

indistinctly signed Lhermitte (lower left)
charcoal on paper
12¾ by 18½ in.
32.4 by 47 cm

Condition Report:
Charcoal on paper, which has been glued to the mat in all four corners. There is slight rippling to the sheet. The surface presents well. There are a very few minute, nearly invisible pin dots of loss at upper and lower center and upper left. A hairline thin 1/4 inch diagonal scratch at lower left.

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Provenance:
Possibly, Deschamps, Paris

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (by March 1895)

Kojiro Matsukata, Tokyo

Private Collection, Japan

Sale: Christie's, London, June 15, 2011, lot 227, illustrated

Acquired at the above sale