Peasants Going to Work

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Prints and Drawings

1863

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: Peasants Going to Work
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.: 1863
Medium: Black crayon on paper
Dimensions: 23 × 18 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter
Reference Number: 1954.1344
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Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 28-65, fig. 15, as Going to Work.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979).

The Art Institute of Chicago, September 1987-September 1991.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Given by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (née Ellen Waller Borden), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1954.

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