Jean-François Millet

Private Collection, Paris

Seoul, Duk Soo Palace Museum, J.F. Millet et le théme du paysan dans le peinture française de XIX^e siècle, August 23-September 24, 1972, no. 17
Cherbourg, Musée Thomas Henry, Jean-François Millet, 1814-1875, et le thème du paysan dans la peinture française du XIXe siècle, July-August, 1975
Paris, Galerie du Fleuve, Aspects du XIXe siecle francais, 1972, no. 48 (as Les portefaix)

Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Millet raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1921, vol. III, fig 285
Robert L. Herbet, Jean-François Millet, exh. cat., Paris, 1975,  mentioned under no. 247.
Alexandra R. Murphy, Jean-François Millet, exh. cat., Boston, 1984, mentioned under no. 57

Laid down on board, foxing to heads of figures on the right and a few pindots of foxing in background, surface accretion to lower left corner, mat burn along four edges.
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The present work is a preparatory drawing for Millet's L'Hiver (Cardiff Museum, Wales).