Women Sewing by Lamplight (La Veillée)
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814–1875)
1853–54
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions35 x 26.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1492
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. MilletProvenance1853/1854, probably commissioned by Paul van Cuyck (b. 1817 - d. 1865), Belgium. 1878, M. Laurent-Richard, Paris; May 23-25, 1878, Laurent-Richard sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 52, sold for 8600 fr. to Alphonse Legrand (dealer), Paris, probably for Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through his children, Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)
