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The Apple Market at Landerneau
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The Apple Market at Landerneau

Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925), artist · 1878 · pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk

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About this 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.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineThe Apple Market at Landerneau, 1878. Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925). Pen and brown ink over tracing in red chalk; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.356
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