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Chestnut Trees near Cusset
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1866
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink with touches of pastel and graphite pencil on dark cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 17.9 x 24.1 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martin Brimmer
Accession Number76.429
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 118
InscriptionsLower right: près Cusset.
Throughout in pencil: vert foncé / labouré a la goue par mottes / niché de touffes / vert gris foncé / carrière / vert / près verts / chemin (in brown ink)
Throughout in pencil: vert foncé / labouré a la goue par mottes / niché de touffes / vert gris foncé / carrière / vert / près verts / chemin (in brown ink)
ProvenanceMillet studio sale (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-11 May, 1875, lot 222); bought by Richard Hearn for Brimmer; Martin Brimmer (1829-1896, MA); acquired July 1876