Jean-François Millet

Literature

Cornelia Homburg (ed.), Van Gogh, New Haven and London, 2012, fig. 52

Provenance

1868-1875, acquired from the artist by Emile Gavet, Paris (commissioned in 1867)
11-12 June 1875, sold at Gavet Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, nr. 94, and bought by Carlin
by 1917, Quincy Adams Shaw, Boston
1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, accession date 29 March 1917

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 17.1524

Other works by Jean-François Millet

The Evening Prayer
1857-59

The Strawstacks
c. 1867-68

The Assumption of Saint Barbara
1841

Peasant spreading manure
1854-55

Narcissi and Violets
c. 1867