After studying drawing and entering a work in the Salon, Lhermitte traveled to London many times after 1869. He was known as a painter of farm subjects after he entered a work in the Royal Academy in 1872. He specialized in a painting surface filled with the soft, rich nuances of pastel or chalk, and was eventually forgotten after considerable fame based on the moralistic sentimentalism of the Victrorian age. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)

Provenance

K. Matsukata; Sequestered by the French Government, 1944; Returned to Japan, 1959.

Exhibition History

1990

[Tour Exhibition] The French modern art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Ibara, 10 April 1990 - 23 April 1990, cat. no. 13

1990

[Tour Exhibition] The French modern art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Cultural Center of Kagawa Prefecture, Takamatsu, 28 April 1990 - 13 May 1990, cat. no. 13

1991

[Tour Exhibition] The French modern art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Hachinohe　, 28 September 1991 - 27 October 1991, cat. no. 11

1992

[Tour Exhibition] The French modern art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Urasoe Art Museum, Urasoe, 3 November 1992 - 7 December 1992, cat. no. 11

1996

The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 10

Bibliography

1961

Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-178.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 157, repr.