The Apple Market at Landerneau (1878): Art, History and Details

The Apple Market at Landerneau (1878) 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:

This drawing is one of more than 50 related to the artist's elaborate painting The Apple Market at Landerneau, exhibited at the Salon of 1878 (see photo). The scene is one of several that Lhermitte made focusing on peasants from Brittany, a region in northwestern France that was known for its picturesque traditional dress and its religious piety.

Object facts

• Title: The Apple Market at Landerneau
• Date: 1878
• Creator attribution: Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk
• Dimensions: Sheet: 27.2 x 38.9 cm (10 11/16 x 15 5/16 in.); Image: 26.6 x 27.7 cm (10 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.356

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Le Pelley Fonteny, Monique. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925): Catalogue Raisonné. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1991.
• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.