The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  after 1859 - 1875

  Emile Gavet [1830-1904], Paris

  1875

  (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 11–12, 1875, no. 80, sold to "Del")

  1875-?

  "Del"

  ?-1962

  (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York)

  1962

  Mrs. Thomas H. Jones Sr. [Katharine Brooks Jones, d. 1979], Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  1962-

  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 Herbert in Paris/London 1975-76 includes in the provenance a work that sold at Drouot, Paris, 30 April 1888, as no. 5, which is incorrect, since this lot is a painting; no other works in the sale correspond to the Cleveland drawing.
• Citations
  Talbot, William S. "Jean-François Millet: Return from the Fields." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 9 (1973): 259-66. Mentioned: p. 265; Reproduced: p. 264 www.jstor.org

  Millet, Van Gogh. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 1998. Mentioned: p. 158 n. 33-34

  Hitchcock, Ripley. "Millet and the Children." St. Nicholas 14, no. 3 (January 1887): 166-178. Mentioned: p. 168

  Soullié, Louis. Peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins de Jean-François Millet relevés dans les catalogues de ventes de 1849 à 1900. Paris: Librairie spéciale des catalogues de ventes annotés, 1900. Mentioned: p. 121

  Cartwright, Julia. Jean François Millet: His Life and Letters. New York: Macmillan, 1902. Mentioned: p. 377

  Gensel, Walther. Millet und Rousseau. Bielefelder: Velhagen & Klasing, 1902. Reproduced: p. 57

  Rolland, Romain. Millet. London: Duckworth, 1902. Mentioned: p. X; Reproduced: p. 75

  Holme, Charles, ed. Corot and Millet. New York: International Studio, 1903. Reproduced: plate M17

  Bénédite, Léonce. Les dessins de J.F. Millet. Paris: Hachette, 1906. Mentioned: p. 24

  Mireur, H. Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'etranger pendant les XVIIIe & XIXe siècles. Paris: Vincenti, 1911. Mentioned: vol. 5, p. 206

  Diez, E. Jean François Millet. Bielefelder: Velhagen & Klasing, 1912. Reproduced: p. 29

  Veth, Jan. "Une même composition chez Joseph Israëls et chez Millet." L'Art flamand & hollandais 9, no. 17 (1912): 53-60. Mentioned: pp. 55, 57-60; Reproduced: between pp. 58

  Cox, Kenyon. Artist and Public. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Mentioned: pp. 65-66; Reproduced: plate 8

  Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne. Millet raconté par lui-même. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1921. Mentioned: vol. 2, pp. 38, 59, 192; Reproduced: between pp. 40 and 41; vol. 3, p. 127

  Gsell, Paul. Millet. Paris: Rieder, 1928. Mentioned: p. 55

  Drawings by Jean-François Millet. Exh. Cat. Cardiff: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1956. Mentioned: p. 35, under no. 50a

  Bouchot-Saupique, Jacqueline. Dessins de Jean-François Millet. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1960. Mentioned: p. 22, under no. 36

  Some Paintings of the Barbizon School. Exh. Cat. London: Hazlitt Gallery, 1960. Mentioned: p. 13, under no. 27

  Chase, Alice Elizabeth. Famous Paintings. New York: Platt & Munk, 1962. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11

  Bacou, Roseline. Millet: One Hundred Drawings. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Mentioned: p. 206, under no. 43

  Herbert, Robert L., Roseline Bacou, and Michel Laclotte. Jean-François Millet. Exh. Cat. Paris: Grand Palais, 1975. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 97

  Fermigier, André. Jean-François Millet. Geneva: Skira, 1977. Mentioned: pp. 54, 62-63, 143; Reproduced: p. 63

  Catalogue of Important Nineteenth Century European Drawings and Watercolours. London: Sotheby's, 1980. Mentioned: under no. 75A

  Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Mentioned: pp. 62-64; Reproduced: p. 64

  Les plus belles pages de la poésie française. Paris: Sélection du Reader's Digest, 1982. Reproduced: pp. 380-381

  Meixner, Laura L. An International Episode: Millet, Monet and their North American Counterparts. Exh. Cat. Memphis: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 85

  Murphy, Alexandra R. Jean-François Millet. Exh. Cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984. Mentioned: p. 115

  Meixner, Laura L. "Will Hicok Low (1853-1932): His Early Career and Barbizon Experience." American Art Journal 17, no. 4 (Autumn 1985): 51-70. Mentioned: p. 59; Reproduced: p. 60

  Tilborgh, Louis van, Sjraar van Heugten, and Philip Conisbee. Van Gogh & Millet. Exh. Cat. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 1988. Mentioned: p. 111, under no. 39

  Lepoittevin, Lucien. Jean-François Millet, images et symboles. Cherbourg: Isoète, 1990. Mentioned: p. 41

  Fermigier, André. Millet. Geneva: Skira, 1991. Mentioned: p. 58, 137; Reproduced: p. 63

  19th Century Continental Pictures, Watercolours and Drawings. London: Christie's, 1992. Mentioned: 25, under no. 17

  Kimura, Shigenobu. Urban Utopia. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. Mentioned: pp. 64, 146; Reproduced: p. 64

  19th Century European Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture. New York: Christie's, 1994. Mentioned: p. 70, under no. 91

  Guégan, Stéphane. Millet peintre paysan. Paris: Flammarion, 1998. Mentioned: p. 78; Reproduced: p. 79

  Murphy, Alexandra R., Richard Rand, Brian T. Allen, et al. Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light. Exh. Cat. Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute, 1999. Mentioned: p. 89, under no. 54

  DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 134-135, pp. 290-291, no. 53; Reproduced: p. 135

  Manoeuvre, Laurent. Jean-François Millet, pastels et dessins. Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Image, 2002. Reproduced: p. 19

  Milesi, Silvana. Il padre nell'arte e nel tempo. Bergamo : Corponove, 2020, 23. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 23

  Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: Acquiring the now-on-view collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 8-9. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8. archive.org
• Exhibition History
  Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).

  Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).

  Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).

  French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

  Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

  The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-May 17, 1987).

  Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

  Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979).

  Jean-François Millet. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 20-March 7, 1976); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (organizer) (October 17-January 5, 1976).

  French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).

  Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

  Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
• Cite this Page
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