Watering Horses, Sunset
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814–1875)
1866
Medium/TechniquePastel and black conté crayon on wove paper, originally cream, now aged to dark cream
Dimensions38.1 x 48.3 cm (15 x 19 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1514
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The colorism of Japanese woodblock prints may have stimulated Millet's inventive treatment of light, especially the unusual combinations of pink, blue, and green, in this stunning pastel.
InscriptionsLower center: J. F. MilletProvenanceBy 1875, Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 20, 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)
