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The Sower

Jean-François Millet

French, 1814–1875

The Sower

c. 1865

Plate Wildenstein D. 415
Medium pastel and Conté crayon on beige paper, mounted on wood-pulp board
Dimensions Sheet: 18 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (47 x 37.5 cm) Frame: 23 3/4 x 20 x 2 in. (60.3 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm)
Object Number 1982.8
Acquisition Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hirschl, 1982
Status Off View

Image Caption

Jean-François Millet, The Sower, c. 1865, pastel and Conté crayon on beige paper, mounted on wood-pulp board. Clark Art Institute, gift of Mr and Mrs Norman Hirschl, 1982.8

Select Bibliography

Kahng, Eik ed. The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse. Masterpieces. The Walters Art Museum, October 7, 2007- January 1, 2008; Phoenix Art Museum, January 20- May 4, 2008. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum distributed by Yale University Press. 2007. Murphy, Alexandera R., et al. Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Etienne Moreau-Nélaton.. Millet raconté par lui-même.. Paris: Henri Laurens.. 1921.. Tilborgh, Louis van, ed. Van Gogh and Millet. Exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh; Zwolle: Waanders, 1989. Richard R. Bretell.. Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape.. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.. 1990.. Thomson, Richard. Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labor. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Herbert Press; New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1990. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Frederickson, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Possibly de Thomas (from 1865); [Knoedler, Paris]; [Knoedler, New York, by 1942]; John Jay Ireland, Chicago (by 1961); John W. Simpson, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hirschl, New York (until 1982, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982.

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