LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
18.125 x 15 in. (46 x 38.1 cm.)
Description:
Exhibited:
Douvres, France, Les Muse Douvres-la-Dlivrande, Ralistes et Impressionistes normands, 1961, no. 115. Cherbourg, Muse Thomas-Henry, Cent cinquantime anniversaire de la naissance de Jean-Franois Millet, 1814-1875, 22 July-15 September 1964, p. 21, no. 26. Paris, Muse Jacquemart-Andr, Exposition J. F. Millet, 17 November 1964-17 January 1965, no. 2.
Literature:
J. Mabire, 'Mlanges: Il y a un mystre Jean-Franois Millet', Rvue du dpartement de la Manche, April 1961, p. 185. L. Lepoittevin, Jean-Franois Millet, portraitiste, Paris, 1971, pp. xxv-xxvi, no. 22, illustrated.
Provenance:
Hamel collection, Lisieux, circa 1880-90. tard collection, Lisieux. Anonymous sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1919, lot 27. F. Cottin, Lisieux, by 1961. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 1977, lot 157. with Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1978. Anonymous sale; Ader, Picard, Tajan, Tokyo, 7 December 1989, lot 11. Private collection, Japan. Anonymous sale; Christies, New York, 12 October 2011, lot 26. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
