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Fileuse à Dinan

Overall recto.

Public Domain

ArtistFrench, 1844–1925
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Fileuse à Dinan
  • Spinner in Dinan
Date1886
MediumCharcoal, with stumping, scraping and erasing, on laid paper, mounted on paper board
DimensionsSheet: 24 7/8 × 19 in. (63.2 × 48.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Houston Alumnae Chapter, in recognition of their Centennial Anniversary
Object number2023.486
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; private collection, France; [Galerie deBayser, Paris, as of 2023]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryNone known.
Published References None known. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in charcoal, bottom left corner: L. Lhermitte
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Signed in charcoal, bottom left corner: L. Lhermitte
Two unidentified watermarks composed of multiple letters can be seen under raking light: double-framed capital letters at upper right, and single-line cursive letters at lower left.

Catalogue raisonnéMonique Le Pelley Fonteny, Leon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925), cat. rais. Paris: Cercl d’Art, 1991, Cat. 727, reprod.

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