The Reading Lesson
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814–1875)
about 1860
Medium/TechniqueBlack conté crayon on dark cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 32.9 x 26.2 cm (12 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit LineFrancis Welch Fund
Accession number1980.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
Collections
ProvenanceEmile Gavet (sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-12 June, 1875, lot 32); bought by Détrimont, probably for Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825, Boston); Childs Gallery, Boston; from whom purchasec by MFA January 16, 1980
Jean-François Millet
about 1854
Jean-François Millet
1851–53
