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Jean-François Millet
Calling the Cows Home
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Jean-François Millet
Calling the Cows Home
c. 1872
94.6 x 64.8 cm
Oil on wood
Signed lower left: J·F·Millet·
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Whitney, 1950
Provenance
The artist, Paris, until died 1875
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-11 May 1875, nr. 42, as "Vacher rappelant ses Vaches")
Sidney Dillon, New York, in 1888
Mrs. Arthur Whitney, Mendham, N.J., until 1950
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External links
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession number
50.151
Other works by Jean-François Millet
Norman milkmaid
1853-54
Maternity: A Young Mother Cradling Her Baby
1870-73
The Gust of Wind
1871-73
Return from the Fields
c. 1846-47
Monsieur Martin
1840