unknow artist Related Paintings of Anonymous :. | Portrait of Elzbieta Sieniawska nee Lubomirska as Minerva | Portrait of Philippe the Bold | Portrait of Henri II, duc de Montmorency | Virgin Mary, reading, with the Child | Fray Jose de Peralta Barnuevo y Rocha Benavides | Related Artists: Charles De Groux painted The drunkard in 1853 Lucia Anguissola Italian Mannerist Painter, 1540-1565 Lhermitte, Leon French Realist Painter, 1844-1925
was a French painter and etcher of the late nineteenth century. A student of Lecocq de Boisbourdran, he was a realist artist whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker. He gained recognition after his show in the Paris Salon in 1864. His many awards include the French Legion of Honour (1884) and the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. Lhermitte's innovative use of the then contemporary media of pastels won him the admiration of his contemporaries. Vincent Van Gogh wrote that If every month Le Monde Illustr published one of his compositions... it would be a great pleasure for me to be able to follow it. It is certain that for years I have not seen anything as beautiful as this scene by Lhermitte