Study

Prints and Drawings

c. 1872

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: Study
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1862–1875
Medium: Black crayon, on ivory wove paper, (discolored to tan), laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 24.1 × 21.8 cm (9 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1969.18
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E3.

Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, “Jean-François Millet,” October 17, 1975-January 5, 1976, cat. 237; also traveled to London, the Hayward Gallery, January 20-March 7, 1976.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Sold by Albert Loeb and Krugier Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1969.

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