1878
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Apple Market at Landerneau is a 1878 by Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a busy outdoor market: women in long skirts and white bonnets sell apples from baskets, while men in dark jackets chat nearby. Sunlight filters through the trees, lighting up the scene. Lhermitte made over 50 sketches for this one painting. He focused on Brittany, a region where people still wore traditional clothes and kept old customs. The market feels real, like a snapshot of daily life. If you like this, look up *subject: france, 19th century* for more scenes like it.
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.
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Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French pronunciation: ; 31 July 1844 – 28 July 1925) was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.
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