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The Grape Harvest

1884
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827
"[The figures] have the healthy, strong beauty of the land on which they live; warm blood runs through their veins and the tingle of life itself passes over their skin, tanned by the sun," declared one critic when Lhermitte exhibited this picture at the 1884 Salon. The artist’s fourth large-scale, heroicizing scene of rustic laborers in as many years, it cemented his reputation as a painter of modern rural life. For admirers such as Van Gogh, Lhermitte’s masterful and sympathetic presentation of the working peasants made him a "genius on a par with that of Millet."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Grape Harvest
  • Artist: Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French, Mont Saint-Père 1844–1925 Paris)
  • Date: 1884
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 99 x 82 5/8 in. (251.5 x 209.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of William Schaus, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.22.2
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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