Farmyard in Winter
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814–1875)
1868
Medium/TechniquePastel and black conté crayon on buff wove paper
Dimensions67.9 x 88.3 cm (26 3/4 x 34 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1526
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Not on viewClassificationsPastels
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Provenance1868-75, acquired from the artist by Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris (commissioned in 1868); June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 10, sold to Durand-Ruel, 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)
