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Newborn Lamb
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1866
Medium/Technique
Pastel and black conté crayon on beige wove paper
Dimensions
40.4 x 47.1 cm (15 7/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1513
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPastels
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 114
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. Millet
ProvenanceBy 1866, commissioned from the artist by Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 66. Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)