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Buckwheat Harvest, Summer
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
1868–74
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
85.4 x 111.1 cm (33 5/8 x 43 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1533
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 150
InscriptionsStamped, lower right: J. F. Millet
Provenance1868/1874, Frédéric Hartmann, Paris (original commission) [see note 1]; May 7, 1881, Hartmann sale, Paris, lot 5. By 1887, Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston [see note 2]; 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] This painting represents summer in a set of the Four Seasons commissioned by Hartmann in 1868. See Alexandra R. Murphy, "Jean-François Millet" (Boston: MFA, 1984), pp. 221-223, cat. no. 150.
[2] E. Durand-Gréville, "La Peinture aux États-Unis," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 36 (1887): 68, mentions this painting in Shaw's collection (called "Récolte du sarrasin").
NOTES:
[1] This painting represents summer in a set of the Four Seasons commissioned by Hartmann in 1868. See Alexandra R. Murphy, "Jean-François Millet" (Boston: MFA, 1984), pp. 221-223, cat. no. 150.
[2] E. Durand-Gréville, "La Peinture aux États-Unis," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 36 (1887): 68, mentions this painting in Shaw's collection (called "Récolte du sarrasin").