%2BLeon%2BAugustin%2B-%2BLandscape%2Bwith%2Ba%2BPeasant%2BWoman%2BMilking%2Ba%2BCow.jpg "Landscape with a Peasant Woman Milking a Cow - Department of Preservation of Works of Art and Antiquities, Petrograd by Leon Augustin L'Hermitte - Landscape Paintings from Hermitage Museum")
Drawing Detail
Landscape with a Peasant Woman Milking a CowArtist: Leon Augustin L'Hermitte
Medium: Drawings, Coloured pencils and pastel, 41x50 cm
Date: 1890s
Genre: Landscape Paintings
Source: Department of Preservation of Works of Art and Antiquities, Petrograd, 1922
The Hermitage drawing is very typical of L'Hermitte's manner. The theme of peasants and their daily life was his favourite. In his pastel works the artist accentuates details with strokes of colour crayons thus creating a pictorial texture resembling the technique of the Impressionists and the effects of plein-air art.