Study for Flax Pulling

Provenance

Estate of the artist, [Lugt 1460b]. Given by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter (née Ellen Waller Borden), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1954.

Study for Flax Pulling

Jean François Millet

c. 1852

Accession Number

82485

Medium

Graphite, with black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Dimensions

23 × 17.2 cm (9 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter