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Seated Spinner (Emélie Millet)
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1854
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
35.2 x 26.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1498
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 45
InscriptionsLower right: [...] F. Millet
ProvenancePaul van Cuyck (b. 1817 - d. 1865), Belgium; February 7-10, 1866, van Cuyck sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot no. 28. Gustave Templaere, Paris. Baron Etienne-Martin de Beurnonville (b. 1825 - d. 1906), Paris; April 29, 1880, Beurnonville sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 39. Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, given to the MFA by Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)