Provenance
Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]; sold, Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 10-11, 1875, Millet estate sale [Joachim 1979]. Possibly Alfred Sensier, Paris [Joachim 1979]. Charles Tillot, Barbizon; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 17, 1887, Tillot sale, lot 41. Henri Rouart (died 1912), Paris; sold, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, December, 16-18, 1912, Rouart sale, lot 234 to Louis Rouart [New Haven, Conn]. Sold by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, to the Art Institute, 1952.
Study: Nude Woman Seen from the Back (recto) Sketches of Peasants Working (verso)
Jean François Milletc. 1846
Accession Number
113448
Medium
Black crayon on gray laid paper, with blue fibers (discolored to buff with tan and blue fibers)
Dimensions
27.1 × 19.8 cm (10 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
crayon
Credit Line
Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson