Leon lhermitte biography

Léon Lhermitte was.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte was born on July 31, 1844 in Mont-Saint-Père in the Aisne region of north-eastern France.

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Leon-Augustin L'hermitte

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Leon-Augustin L'hermitte

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French Naturalist painter and printmaker

Born 1844 - Died 1925

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Léon Lhermitte

French painter (1844–1925)

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French pronunciation:[leɔ̃oɡystɛ̃lɛʁmit]; 31 July 1844 – 28 July 1925) was a French naturalistpainter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.

Life and work

Lhermitte was born in 1844 in Mont-Saint-Père in Picardy into a cultivated but modest family. His father, a schoolteacher, noticed his talent for drawing and encouraged him in this area. In 1863, Lhermitte joined as a student the Special School of Drawing and Mathematics, known as the “Petite École” (which became the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris) under the teaching of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Then, he entered the Paris School of Fine Arts.

The rurality of his native region was his main source of inspiration. Nicknamed the “painter of harvesters”, his works bears witness to the working and peasant social life of his time through scenes of rural or urban work. It was the painting The Harvesters' Pay (1882) that brought him notoriety and recognition from his peers.

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LHERMITTE, Léon-Augustin

(b. 1844, Mont Saint-Père, Aisne, d. 1925, Paris)

Biography

French draughtsman, printmaker, painter and illustrator. He was the only son of a village schoolmaster and his precocious drawing skill won him an annual grant from the state. In 1863 he went to Paris and became a student at the Petite Ecole, where one of his teachers was Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, famed for his method of training the visual memory. Jean-Charles Cazin, a fellow pupil, became a lifelong friend and Lhermitte later got to know Alphonse Legros, Henri Fantin-Latour, Jules Dalou and Rodin, who had all studied at the school.

In 1864 his charcoal drawing the Banks of the Marne near Alfort (untraced) was exhibited at the Salon. By inclination and by training a meticulous draughtsman, he continued to exhibit his drawings at the Salon until 1889. He won his first medal in 1874 with La Moisson (Musée de Carcassone). Other prizes and honours came to Lhermitte throughout his long career, including the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle, 1889, the Diplome d'honneur, Dresden,