The Woodchopper

Prints and Drawings

c. 1848–1850

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: The Woodchopper
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.: 1838–1850
Medium: Black chalk, on gray laid paper with blue and red fibers
Dimensions: 29.5 × 21.2 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Galerie Chalette
Reference Number: 1956.349
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Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 34, 57 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5C9.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Emile Joseph-Rignault (born 1874), Paris [Lugt 2218]. Given by Galerie Chalette to the Art Institute, 1956.

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