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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.877
People
Jean-François Millet, French (Gruchy 1814 - 1875 Barbizon)
Title
Head of a Boy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1846-1848
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297954

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on beige laid paper, darkened
Dimensions
actual: 46.5 x 29.6 cm (18 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mme Millet, the artist's widow; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 24-25, 1894, no. 86; purchased at that sale by Albert Cahen d'Anvers, Paris (d. 1903); Mme Albert Cahen d'Anvers, Paris (d. 1918); Scott and Fowles, New York, by 1922; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, October 1922 ($1,000); 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
1943.877
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mahonri Sharp Young, "Letter from U.S.A. Amateurs of Art", Apollo (March 1969), n.s., 89, p. 237, fig. 4
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), cat. no. 108, repr.
  • Lucien Lepoittevin, Jean-François Millet, Laget (Paris, 1971), no. 95, repr.
  • Alexandra R. Murphy, Jean-François Millet, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1984), pg. 8
  • 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. 89, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • 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

Verification Level

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