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Peasant Watering Her Cow

(French, 1814–1875)
about 1863
Medium/TechniqueOil over black conté crayon on canvas
Dimensions46 x 55.5 cm (18 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1509
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. M.
ProvenanceAbout 1863, possibly Ennemond Blanc (dealer), Paris. Alfred Sensier (b. 1815 - d. 1877), Paris; December 10-18, 1877, Sensier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 52, sold to Alphonse Legrand (dealer), Paris, probably for 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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