Jean-François Millet

Literature

Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirshler, H. Barbara Weinberg, Americans in Paris 1860-1900, New Haven, CT, 2006, fig. 36
Sjraar van Heugten, Joachim Pissarro and Chris Stolwijk, Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night, Brussels, 2008, fig. 16
Richard Bionda, Matthijs Maris, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 60A
Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh and the artists he loved, New York, 2021, p. 38

Provenance

about 1851/1852, sold by the artist to William Morris Hunt (born 1824 - died 1879), Boston
1874, sold by Hunt through Doll and Richards, Boston, to Quincy Adams Shaw (born 1825 - died 1908), Boston
1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA, accession date 29 March 1917

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 17.1485

Other works by Jean-François Millet

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys
1872-73

The Sheepfold, Moonlight
1856-60

Peasant and Donkey Returning Homewards at Dusk
1866

Feeding the Children
c. 1860

Haystacks: Autumn
c. 1874