レオン・オーギュスタン・レルミット

Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925) was a French naturalist painter and etcher known for his powerful depictions of rural labour and peasant life. Born in Mont-Saint-Père in Picardy, he studied under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the Special School of Drawing in Paris and later at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he befriended Henri Fantin-Latour and Auguste Rodin.