Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

1864

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)

Status: On View, Gallery 222
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1864
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: J.F. Millet
Dimensions: 81.1 × 100 cm (31 15/16 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 120.1 × 138.5 × 19.1 cm (47 1/4 × 54 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1063
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Tokyo, ASAHI, Masterworks of Modern Art From The Art Institute of Chicago, cat. 3 (ill.), 1994, traveled to Nagaoka, Niiagata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; and Yokohama Museum of Art, 1994-1995.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals in the Industrial Age, 1750-1920, October 5, 2005- February 5, 2006; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, March 26 - August 27, 2006.
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Henry Probasco (1820-1902), Cincinnati by 1873 [see Cambridge 1873]; his sale, New York, American Art Association, April 18, 1877, lot 94 [according to Paris 1975]. Mrs. Henry Field (née Florence Lathrop, later Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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