Two Sketches of a Peasant, seen from Behind

1850/1852

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: Two Sketches of a Peasant, seen from Behind
Origin: France
Date: 1840–1852
Medium: Charcoal, on gray laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on tan wove paper
Dimensions: 262 × 229 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter
Reference Number: 1954.1350

Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 28-65, fig. 10, as Two Studies of a Peasant.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979).

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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