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Léon Augustin Lhermitte

Interior of a Butcher Shop

c. 1881
charcoal and black chalk heightened with white chalk (media continue onto secondary support)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The French writer Théodore de Banville described Léon Lhermitte's drawings, saying that "In his hands charcoal and black chalk are like magical tools."

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