The Keeper of the Flock

Paris, L’École des beaux-arts, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins rehaussés, croquis et eaux-fortes de J.-F. Millet, 1887, no. 21. London, Lawrie and Company’s Galleries, Loan Collection of Pictures Principally of the French School of 1830, 1893, cat. 10. Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1901, cat. 1421. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings Lent by Mrs. W. W. Kimball, July 1–October 24, 1920, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 252. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 199. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jean-François Millet, October 17, 1975–January 5, 1976, cat. 227; traveled to London, Hayward Gallery, January 22–March 7, 1976, cat. 140. Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–August 8, 1976, no cat.

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