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Two Men Turning over the Soil

Two Men Turning over the Soil

(French, 1814–1875)
1866
Medium/TechniquePastel and black conté crayon on wove paper, originally cream, aged to dark cream
Dimensions69.9 x 94 cm (27 1/2 x 37 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1510
On View
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ClassificationsPastels
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. Millet
ProvenanceBy 1875, commissioned from the artist by Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 49, sold to Alexis-Eugene Détrimont (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)