Study: Nude Woman Seen from the Back (recto) Sketches of Peasants Working (verso)

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 Millet

c. 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

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson