ID 1305703
Lot 50 | JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (FRENCH, 1814-1875)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Paysanne veillant son enfant
signed with the artist's initials 'J.F.M.' (lower right)
charcoal and pastel on paper, laid down
13 x 10 1/8 in. (33 x 25.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1858-1860.
Provenance
Charles Hayem (1839–1902), Paris.
M. Defoer, Paris.
His sale; Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1886, lot 51.
with Williams and Everett, Boston.
Private collection, Boston, acquired directly from the above.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
L. Roger-Miles, Le Paysan Dans L'Œuvre de J.F. Millet, Paris, 1895, n.p., illustrated.
L. Soullié, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins de Jean-François Millet, Relevés dans les catalogues de ventes de 1849 à 1900, Précédé d'une notice biographique par P. Mantz, Paris, 1900, p. 118.
Le Journal de la Famille, 1 January 1912, pp. 7-8, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, The Copley Society, The French School of 1830, March 1908, no. 96, as The Young Mother.
| Artist: | Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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