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Jean-François Millet, 1814-1875

Shepherdess

Medium: Pastel and conté crayon on gray, medium-weight, moderately textured wove(?) paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 695 x 937 mm.
Date: ca. 1870-1874
Category: genre
Subject: Rural Sheperdess Woman
Inscriptions and Markings: RECTO: 'J.F. Millet' in pastel at bottom left and in conté crayon over pastel at bottom right.
Exhibition History: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Drawings and Prints from the School of Barbizon', April-June 1964. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989. Alexandra Murphy, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 'Jean-François Millet: Drawn into Light', June 20-Sept. 7, 1999, p. 118, no. 84; circulated to The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Oct. 26, 1999-Jan. 5, 2000.
Bibliography: 'Accessions Report', The Baltimore Museum of Art News, 28:1 (1965), p. 23, ill. p. 24.
Related Works: Variation after a painting exhibited in 1864 (now in the Musée d'Orsay). Three other pastels.
Provenance: BMA by gift, 1964; Abram Eisenberg, Baltimore, by purchase April 1927; consigned to M. Knoedler and Co., NY and Paris, 1926; by descent to Mrs. Michael Gavin; James J. Hill, St. Paul, by purchase December 1913; consigned to M. Knoedler and Co., NY and Paris; Edward Wasserman; American Art Association, New York, Jan. 25, 1907, no. 23; H. S. Henry, New York, with Julius Oehme, New York, by purchase; J. Saats Forbes, London.
Collection: The Baltimore Museum of Art
Credit Line: The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
Object Number: BMA 1964.24