Seated Peasant Woman (c. 1885): Art, History and Details

Seated Peasant Woman (c. 1885) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Lhermitte's work portrays simple peasants working in harmony with a bountiful natural environment without reference to industrial development, mechanization of farm work, and the depopulation of the countryside. His sturdy images of Champagne's rural life have a sober, unsentimental character in which the peasant figures are neither tidied nor prettified. The artist achieved his most personal expression in his charcoal drawings which first achieved critical success in London where they were exhibited from the early 1870s. By the 1880s, his drawings had gained wide popularity in France.

Object facts

• Title: Seated Peasant Woman
• Date: c. 1885
• Creator attribution: Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: charcoal
• Dimensions: Overall: 49.2 x 40 cm (19 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.375

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

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