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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 23, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 78 | $****** - ****** | Woodcutter And His Wife Preparing Fagots | |||
Oct 25, 1989 | Christie's | New York | 19th C Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 283 | Estimates not disclosed | Bucheron preparant des fagots |
Works on Paper
49 x 34 cm (19.29 x 13.39 in)
pastel over crayon noir on paper
signed J.F. Millet (lower right)
Émile Gavet, Paris (commissioned from the artist and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11-12, 1875, lot 15) Détrimont, Paris (acquired at the above sale) Paul Gallimard, Paris Paul Cassirer, Berlin (by 1929)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9, 1935, lot 20, illustrated Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (in 1956) Dr. Peter Nathan, Zürich
Private Collection, Germany
Sale: Christie's, New York, October 25, 1989, lot 283, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Paris, No. 7 Rue Saint-Georges, Dessins de Millet provenant de la collection de M. G., 1875, no. 16 Berlin, Paul Cassirer Gallery, Ein Jahrhundert Französischer Zeichnung, 1929-30, no. 87, illustrated Munich, Ludwigs Galerie, Romantische Malerei in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1931, no. 53 Bern, Kunsthalle, Französischer Meister des 19, Jahrhunderts und Van Gogh, 1934, no. 75 Amsterdam, Museum Willet Holthuysen, Tentoonstelling van pastels uit drie eeuwen, 1934, no. 30 London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Drawings by J. F. Millet, 1956, no. 62 Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, J.F. Millet, the Barbizon Artists and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition, 1998, no. IV-14, illustrated Nagoya, City Art Museum; Morioka, Iwate Museum of Art; Hiroshima, Museum of Art, Van Gogh, Millet and the Barbizon Artists, 2004, no. 50, illustrated.
Théophile Silvestre, "De Millet et de ses dessins" (introduction to the catalogue of the Gavet collection sale), L'Artiste, July 1, 1875, p. 30 Charles Yriarte, J.F. Millet, Paris, 1885, p. 22, illustrated Perspex, "Current Shows and Comments," Apollo, vol. LXIV, September 1956, p. 67, illustrated Chris Stolwijk, Sjraar Van Heugten, Leo Jansen, and Andreas Blüm, De Keuze Van Vincent, Van Gogh's Musée imaginaire, London, 2003, illustrated p. 194
