Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004422The Old Mill
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: "J.F. Millet"
Provenance
Emile Gavet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, June 11-12, 1875, lot 92 [according to Herbert 1966]. Given by John Wentworth to the Art Institute, 1942.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-July 24, 1989.
Publications
Louis Soullié, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins de Jean-François Millet relevés dans les catalogues de ventes de 1849 à 1900 (Paris, 1900), p. 111. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 313. Robert L. Herbert, "Millet Reconsidered," Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1 (1966), pp. 49 and 62. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 109, no. 5D8. Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 85, 87, and 119 (ill.).
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
- 1866/70
- Medium
- Pastel with stumping, pen and black ink, and touches of black chalk, on cream wove paper, laid down on wood pulp board
- Dimensions
- 39.8 × 48.2 cm (15 11/16 × 19 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of John Wentworth
- Accession no.
- 1942.307
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