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Two Men Seated on a Bale of Grain. Study for Harvesters Resting (recto); Perspective Studies of Figures around a Cart and Figures in a Farmyard (verso)
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1851–53
Medium/Technique
Black conté crayon heightened with white chalk on blue-gray laid paper
Dimensions
31.1 x 42.2 cm (12 1/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Edwin E. Jack Fund
Accession Number61.630
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CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 037; Murphy 50
DescriptionSketch for Harvesters Resting, oil, 1853, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
InscriptionsLower r. in brown ink: J. F. M.
ProvenanceMillet estate (Lugt 1460); G. Bhyne, France; Leicester Galleries, London, in 1920; acquired June 1961