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Léon Auguste LHERMITTE (Mont Saint Père 1844-Paris 1925)
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Léon Auguste LHERMITTE (Mont Saint Père 1844-Paris 1925)
Por…
See original version (French)
Estimate €5,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Léon Auguste LHERMITTE (Mont Saint Père 1844-Paris 1925)
Portrait of Louis Charles Malassez, inventor of the haemocytometer
Original oil on canvas
69 x 56 cm
Signed and dated upper right L. Lhermitte 90
This portrait is included in the painting "Claude Bernard in his laboratory carrying out vivisection experiments" 1889
Léon Lhermitte describes the painting in his livre de raison "Head in profile with right hand (slightly cut by the frame) Life size.
Provenance:
Always remained in the same family
Bibliography:
Monique le Pelley Fonteny; Leon Lhermitte (1844 - 1925)Paris , 1991; n° 292, page 157 not reproduced
"The first panel commissioned for the Sorbonne appeared in the Salon des Artistes Français and depicts an experiment by Claude Bernard at the Collège de France. The professor is surrounded by Paul Bert, d'Arsonval and Malassez.
Malassez and his wife were so enchanted by the painting that they asked the painter to make a copy of Malassez's head. This commission was carried out in May 1890".
In M. LePelley Fonteny Leon Lhermitte.
See original version (French)
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