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Study for Shepherdess Knitting (La Grande Bergère)
Study for Shepherdess Knitting (La Grande Bergère)

Study for Shepherdess Knitting (La Grande Bergère)

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1862
Medium/TechniqueBlack conté crayon on dark cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 31.4 x 24.1 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Framed: 49.2 x 41.6 cm (19 3/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. John Templeman Coolidge
Accession number46.594
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenancePaul Marmontel; sale, Hôtel Drout, Paris, 25-26 January 1883, no. 187; by 1908, John Templeman Coolidge, Jr. (1856-1945), Boston; Mrs. J. Templeman Coolidge; 1946, gift of Mrs. J. Templeman Coolidge to MFA.
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