Interior of a Butcher Shop
c. 1881
Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925)
Drawings
Interior of a Butcher Shop, c. 1881. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925). Charcoal and black chalk heightened with white chalk (media continue onto secondary support); sheet: 55.7 x 57.2 cm (21 15/16 x 22 1/2 in.); secondary support: 56.1 x 58.4 cm (22 1/16 x 23 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Muriel S. Butkin 1978.131 The French writer Théodore de Banville described Léon Lhermitte's drawings, saying that "In his hands charcoal and black chalk are like magical tools."
- Maker/Artist
- Lhermitte, Léon-Augustin
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- charcoal and black chalk heightened with white chalk (media continue onto secondary support)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55.7 x 57.2 cm (21 15/16 x 22 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 56.1 x 58.4 cm (22 1/16 x 23 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in charcoal: L. Lhermitte
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1978.131
- Credit Line
- Gift of Muriel S. Butkin
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900, French Drawings from the Collection, CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).<br>CMA; Brooklyn (N.Y.) Museum of Art; St. Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-81; Mar. 7-June 7, 1981; July 23-Sep. 27, 1981; Nov. 5, 1981-Jan. 4, 1982), no. 176, illus.<br>CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979). <br>CMA, Year in Review for 1978 (Feb. 13-Mar. 18, 1979), cma Bulletin 66 (1979), p. 44 no. 68, illus. p. 20.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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