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The Little Milkmaid

The Little Milkmaid

c. 1865
(French, 1823–1891)
Unframed: 46.3 x 38.3 cm (18 1/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Members of Ribot's family are the likely models for many of his figure compositions, in which the subjects engage in humble activities, such as preparing meals or gathering in groups to read to each other.
  • 1882
    (Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 6, 1882, no. 82, probably sold to Bernheim-Jeune)
    1882-
    (Probably Bernheim-Jeune, Paris)
    By 1892 - by 1896
    Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber [1830-1907], Hamburg
    1896
    (Ribot (his widow) estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, May 30, 1896, no. 3)
    1911
    (Probably Bernheim-Jeune, Paris)
    1931-
    (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris)
    By 1972-1973
    (Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1973-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hôtel Drouot. Catalogue de tableaux modernes. April 6, 1882.
    Hôtel Drouot. Catalogue de tableaux modernes. April 6, 1882.
    Sertrat, Raoul. Exposition Th. Ribot: au Palais national de l'École des beaux-arts : ouverte du 3 mai au 31 mai 1892. Paris: Impr. de l'art, E. Ménard, 1892.
    Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux, études, aquarelles, dessins par Théodule Ribot. May 30, 1896.
    Ribot, Théodule. Exposition Ribot: du jeudi 2 au mercredi 8 février 1911 ... : Paris ... chez MM. Bernheim Jeune & cie. Paris: Bernheim Jeune, 1911.
    Gabriel P. Weisberg, fax to Roger Diederen, Jan. 25, 1996, in CMA curatorial file.
    Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 2, 2016, in CMA curatorial file.

    d'Argencourt, Louise, Roger Diederen, and Alisa Luxenberg. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
    Lefort, Paul. "Theodule Ribot." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1891): 298-309.
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXI, no. 2 (February, 1974):31-78. Reproduced: p. 50; Mentioned: p. 74, no. 42
    "Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly 37 (Spring 1974): 98-114. Mentioned: P. 101; reproduced: P. 112
    Weisberg, Gabriel P. "Theodule Ribot: Popular Imagery and The Little Milkmaid." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXIII, no. 10 (October, 1976):253-263. Reproduced: p. 2545, fig. 1; Mentioned: p. 262, no. 4
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 212 archive.org
    Weisberg, Gabriel P. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Referenced: no. 9, p., 47, Reproduced
    Sutton, Denys. “Cross-Currents in Nineteenth-Century French Painting.” Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques 113 (April 1981): 244–54. Reproduced: P. 248, fig. 11
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 198
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 190
    Faroult, Guillaume and Sophie Eloy. La collection La Caze: chefs-d'œuvre des peintures des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris, France: Musée du Louvre, 2007. Reproduced: p. 137, fig. 105
    Weisberg, Gabriel P. "Theodule Ribot: la Vie dans l'Art." In Théodule Ribot, 1823-1891: Une Délicieuse Obscurité. Emmanuelle Delapierre, Luc Georget, Gabriel Weisberg, eds., 22-35. Paris: LienArt, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30, fig. 7
  • Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900. Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (September 24-December 17, 1995); Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (January 5-February 4, 1996); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (February 24-April 21, 1996).
    The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981).
    Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
    Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
    Exposition Thedule Ribot. Palais National de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (1892).
    Exposition Ribot. Bernheim Jeune & Cie, Paris, France (February 2-8, 1911).
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