Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003570Peasants Going to Work
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Given by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (née Ellen Waller Borden), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1954.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 1987-September 1991.
Publications
Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 28-65, fig. 15, as Going to Work. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean François Millet / French, 1814-1875
- Date
- 1863
- Medium
- Black crayon on paper
- Dimensions
- 23 × 18 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- crayon
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter
- Accession no.
- 1954.1344
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