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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.880
People
Jean-François Millet, French (Gruchy 1814 - 1875 Barbizon)
Title
Peasant Mother at the Hearth
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Pot au Feu
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297472

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and colored chalks on buff laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 39.7 x 32.2 cm (15 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cottier and Co., New York and London, 1902; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1917; acquired from them by M. Knoedler, New York and Paris, 1917; acquired from them by Scott and Fowles, New York, 1919; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, February 2, 1920; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.880
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arsène Alexandre, "Jean-François Millet", The Studio (Winter 1902-1903), special number, pl. M15
  • Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Millet raconté par lui-même (3 vols.), H. Laurens (Paris, 1921), vol. 2, pg. 37, fig. 119
  • Robert L. Herbert, "Millet Revisited," parts 1 and 2, Burlington Magazine (London, July and September 1962), 104, pg. 378 (part two, September 1962)
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 90, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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