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Peasant Girl with Two Cows
Peasant Girl with Two Cows

Peasant Girl with Two Cows

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1863
Medium/TechniqueBlack conté crayon and pastel on beige laid paper
Dimensions29.7 x 47 cm (11 11/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1516
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPastels
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. MilletProvenanceBy 1875, Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 39, 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)
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about 1860–62
Return of the Flock
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about 1863–64
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