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. Lhermittees 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 Illustre published one of his compositions.  Related Paintings of Leon Lhermitte :. | Family Group | The Nymphaeum (mk26) | Portrat of a cavalier with Plerd and Reitknecht | johan werner d a | miss gideon and her brother, william |
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1817-1880
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