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Watering Horses, Sunset
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1866
Medium/Technique
Pastel and black conté crayon on wove paper, originally cream, now aged to dark cream
Dimensions
38.1 x 48.3 cm (15 x 19 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1514
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPastels
The colorism of Japanese woodblock prints may have stimulated Millet's inventive treatment of light, especially the unusual combinations of pink, blue, and green, in this stunning pastel.
InscriptionsLower center: J. F. Millet
ProvenanceBy 1875, Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 20, sold to Alexis-Eugene Détrimont (dealer), Paris, probably for 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)