# Léon Lhermitte artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leon-lhermitte/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:11:24.500Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1844-07-31
- Death date: 1925-07-27
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Naturalism
- Common media: Painting, Etching

## Portrait

![Léon Lhermitte](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte_par_Nadar.jpg/1280px-L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte_par_Nadar.jpg)
Nadar · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte_par_Nadar.jpg

## About Léon Lhermitte

Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925), also identified as Léon Augustin Lhermitte, was a French painter and etcher associated with Naturalism. His characteristic subject context is rural life: agricultural labor, peasants at work, and everyday countryside settings. Collected descriptions indicate that he maintained a sustained interest in this subject matter rather than treating it as an occasional theme. Authority records connect his name to stable identifiers at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, and the British Museum, helping distinguish him from similarly named people. Collectors may encounter both paintings and etchings, so the medium should be established before auction comparisons are made. His works require careful cataloguing because related rural subjects can appear across different techniques and formats. Identifying the work type, depicted activity, and documented artist identity provides the soundest starting point for further research and appraisal.

## Common works and media

Public descriptions identify Lhermitte as both a painter and an etcher. Works connected with his documented artistic identity commonly concern rural life, including peasants working and other agricultural scenes. An appraisal should distinguish an original painting from an etching before selecting comparable auction records; the available source pack does not support broader claims about editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or other categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by separating paintings from etchings and then comparing works with similar rural subjects and formats. The artist input is associated with a substantial Appraisily auction-record inventory, but the collected source pack does not include lot-level descriptions, dimensions, sale results, or sale dates. Those details must be checked in the underlying records before any valuation conclusion is reached. The most defensible comparison set will use public auction results that match the object's medium and subject as closely as possible. This profile should not be read as a price forecast: a valuation requires a verified object record and relevant comparable sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2756381
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019500
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76373099/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3533
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Augustin_Lhermitte
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leon-lhermitte/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Lhermitte_par_Nadar.jpg