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Jean-François Millet

Returning from Market, early 1850s

Description

Maker

Title

Returning from Market

Year

early 1850s

Medium

Charcoal and black chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

14.6 x 15.2 cm (5 13/16 x 6 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Stamped with the sale mark "J. F. M." (Sale: 1875; Lugt 1460)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

22.097

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

French Drawings in the Time of Degas

August 19, 2005 - January 22, 2006

Millet was a member of the group of painters who worked from nature in and around the village of Barbizon, some 25 miles southwest of Paris on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. They developed a new, naturalistic style of landscape painting in the 1830s and 1840s. These works were admired by collectors of the time, but Degas did not share this enthusiasm and collected only Millet’ s figure studies.

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