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  • Description

    The foreground river and dark hillsides of this drawing resonate in several of Xu Bing’s drawings of Hebei province (see LI2007.21). Two works by Leon Augustin Lhermitte were exhibited in Beijing in 1978 at the National Gallery of China.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › France (Pont-en-Royans) (place of creation)
    Europe › France (Pont-en-Royans) (subject)
    Date
    1875 - 1925
    Artist/maker
    Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (1844 - 1925) (artist)
    Material and technique
    charcoal with erasures on paper; black chalk inscription
    Dimensions
    sheet 27.4 x 46.7 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    organic › vegetal › charcoal,
    inorganic › stone › limestone › chalk
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Charles Emanuel, 1952.
    Accession no.
    WA1952.57

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 24 on p. 59, pp. 16, 155, illus. p. 59 fig. 24

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