1943.877: Head of a Boy

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

Permissions

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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

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