The Departure for Work

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1857

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: The Departure for Work
Origin: France
Date: 1857
Medium: Pastel and charcoal on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in black Conté crayon: "J. F. Millet"
Dimensions: 340 × 283 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.693
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Etienne Moreau-Nelaton, Millet 2 (Paris, 1921), p. 36, fig. 112.

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, J.F. Millet,” 1887, p. 72, cat. 103.
Paris, Hector Brame, “J.F. Millet, Dessinateur,” Jan. 31-Feb. 19, 1938, cat. 29.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, December 9, 1967–March 29, 1968.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 108-109, cat. 73 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Souvenirs of the Barbizon: Photographs, Paintings and Works on Paper”, July 2 - September 25, 2011.

Possibly Charles Tillot (1825-1895), Barbizon and Paris, before 1887 [Alixe Murphy email Aug. 12, 2005]. Philippe Gille, by 1887 [Paris 1887]. Galerie Hector Brame, Paris, by 1938 [Paris, 1938]. Sold by Jacques Dubourg, Paris, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, March 24, 1967 [collector notes]; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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