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Harvesting, Late Afternoon

Date

ca. 1893-1903

Creator

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Images of rural life in France are at the heart of Lhermitte’s artistic production. Throughout his career, he returned again and again to the theme of haymakers, gleaners, and the life of farmworkers at the end of the nineteenth century. Like many of his colleagues, Lhermitte strove to capture the agricultural traditions of the French countryside before they disappeared in the rush of industrialization and urban development. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)

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Images of rural life in France are at the heart of Lhermitte’s artistic production. Throughout his career, he returned again and again to the theme of haymakers, gleaners, and the life of farmworkers at the end of the nineteenth century. Like many of his colleagues, Lhermitte strove to capture the agricultural traditions of the French countryside before they disappeared in the rush of industrialization and urban development. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
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  • Images of rural life in France are at the heart of Lhermitte’s artistic production. Throughout his career, he returned again and again to the theme of haymakers, gleaners, and the life of farmworkers at the end of the nineteenth century. Like many of his colleagues, Lhermitte strove to capture the agricultural traditions of the French countryside before they disappeared in the rush of industrialization and urban development. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
  • Images of rural life in France are at the heart of Lhermitte’s artistic production. Throughout his career, he returned again and again to the theme of haymakers, gleaners, and the life of farmworkers at the end of the nineteenth century. Like many of his colleagues, Lhermitte strove to capture the agricultural traditions of the French countryside before they disappeared in the rush of industrialization and urban development. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844 - 1925)
ca. 1893-1903
Paintings
Oil on canvas
2009.045.076
harvesting
labor
rural
Triticum
women
Raclin Murphy Museum: 109
26 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (67.95 x 54.61 cm)
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection

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