Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003572Study for Flax Pulling
Provenance
Estate of the artist, [Lugt 1460b]. Given by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (née Ellen Waller Borden), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1954.
Publications
Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 28-65, fig. 9. 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
- c. 1852
- Medium
- Graphite, with black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23 × 17.2 cm (9 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter
- Accession no.
- 1954.1346
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