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Garlic Seller

(French, 1850–1924)
about 1880
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueOil on paper mounted and extended on canvas
Dimensions71.8 x 48.9 cm (28 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe Henry C. and Martha B. Angell Collection
Accession number19.103
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: J.F. R A F F A ELLI
ProvenanceBy 1881, Albert Wolff (b. 1835 - d. 1891), Paris [see note 1]; October 5, 1889, possibly sold by Albert Wolff to Goupil et Cie., Paris and New York (stock no. 20,080); possibly sold by Goupil to John G. Johnson (b. 1841 - d. 1917), Philadelphia [see note 2]. By 1895, acquired in exchange from Hazelton (dealer), Philadelphia, by Henry Clay Angell (b. 1829 - d. 1911), Boston; 1911, by inheritance to his widow, Martha Bartlett Angell (b. 1833 - d. 1919), Boston; 1916, gift of Martha Bartlett Angell to the MFA; 1919, upon Mrs. Angell's death, accessioned fully by the MFA. (Accession Dates: October 19, 1916 and March 20, 1919)

NOTES:
[1] Lent by Wolff to the Sixth Impressionist Exposition, 1881, no. 96, as "Marchand d'ails et d'echalotes." [2] Possibly the Raffaelli painting titled "Un Marchand" measuring 20 1/2 x 9 [sic?] inches, purchased from Wolff in 1889 and subsequently sold to Johnson. Getty Provenance Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, Stock Book 12, no. 20080, p. 121.
Place du Parvis, Notre Dame, Paris
Jean-François Raffaëlli
Ceiling compilation
Jacopo Amigoni
St.-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
Jean-François Raffaëlli
about 1897
Street Scene (Rue à Levallois)
Jean-François Raffaëlli
about 1890
Three Men Shearing Sheep in a Barn
Jean-François Millet
about 1852
The Magnanimity of Lycurgus
Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier
1791
Sewing Lesson
Jean-François Millet
1874
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Jean-François Millet
about 1870–73
Self-Portrait
Jean-François Millet
about 1840–41
Millet's Family Home at Gruchy
Jean-François Millet
1854
Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz)
Jean-François Millet
1850–53