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Knitting Lesson
Knitting Lesson

Knitting Lesson

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
about 1860
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions40.4 x 31.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1504
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. MilletProvenanceBy 1860, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Paris. Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)
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