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Peasant Watering her Cow, Evening

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1873–74

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 81.6 x 100.3 cm (32 1/8 x 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1531
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsLower right: J. F. Mill[...]
Provenance1873/1874, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris; between about 1874 and 1878, sold by Durand-Ruel to M. Laurent-Richard, Paris [see note 1]; May 23-25, 1878, Laurent-Richard sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 47, sold for 15,500 to Petit, possibly 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)

NOTES:
[1] Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de L'Impressionnisme, vol. 2 (Paris: Durand-Ruel, 1939), 185.