Entrance to the Forest at Barbizon in Winter

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)

about 1866–67

Medium/TechniqueBlack conté crayon and pastel on gray-beige wove paper

Dimensions51.5 x 40.6 cm (20 1/4 x 16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton

Accession number17.1491

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ClassificationsPastels

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InscriptionsLower right: J. F. MilletProvenanceCommissioned by Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 18, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris. Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through his children, Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)