Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000180The Woodchopper
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Emile Joseph-Rignault (born 1874), Paris [Lugt 2218]. Given by Galerie Chalette to the Art Institute, 1956.
Publications
Robert L. Herbert, "Millet Reconsidered," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 34, 57 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5C9.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean François Millet / French, 1814-1875
- Date
- c. 1848–1850
- Medium
- Black chalk, on gray laid paper with blue and red fibers
- Dimensions
- 29.5 × 21.2 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Galerie Chalette
- Accession no.
- 1956.349
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