Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006123Near Vichy
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right corner, in pen and brown ink: “Vichy”; inscribed verso, lower left corner, in graphite: “No. 81”
Provenance
Estate of the artist, from 1875 [stamp (Lugt 1460) recto lower left in black and stamp (Lugt 1816a) verso lower right in black]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10, 1875, lot 84 or 92. M. Mignon, Paris, by 1887. Sold by Hazlitt, Gooden, & Fox, London, July 30, 2001 to David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago.
Exhibition history
Paris, Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins rehaussés croquis et eaux-fortes de J.-F. Millet, 1887, cat. 69. Clermon-Ferrand, France, Musée d’art Roger Quillot, Jean-François Millet: Voyages en Auvergne et Bourbonnais, 1866–1868, 2002, p. 101 and 132, cat. 74. Art Institute of Chicago, Dreams & Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Oct. 20, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, pp. 100-01 and 219, cat. 39 (color 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
- 1866/67
- Medium
- Watercolor and pen and brown iron gall ink over graphite on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 10.9 × 16.1 cm (4 5/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- paper
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
- Accession no.
- 2015.718
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