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Forest with Shepherdess and Sheep
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1849–50
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
27.3 x 14.9 cm (10 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1486
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. Millet
ProvenanceFrom the artist to Alfred Sensier (b. 1815 - d. 1877), Paris; December 10, 1877, Sensier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 53, to Alphonse Legrand (dealer), Paris, probably for Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)