Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003571Woman Emptying a Pail
Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Given by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (née Ellen Waller Borden), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1954.
Publications
Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 28-65, fig. 14, as Woman at the Well. 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
- 1856/1857
- Medium
- Black crayon, over red chalk, on ivory wove paper (discolored to tan)
- Dimensions
- 26.1 × 17.3 cm (10 5/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- crayon
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter
- Accession no.
- 1954.1345
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