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Lot 7
  • 7

Jean-François Millet

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-François MIllet
  • La Fileuse Auvergnate (Auvergne Goat Girl)
  • signed with initals J. F. M. (lower right); stamped VENTE MILLET with two collectors' stamps on the reverse
  • black chalk with stumping on blue-grey paper rubbed on the reverse for transfer
  • 7 3/4 by 5 3/8 in.
  • 19.7 by 18.7 cm

Provenance

The artist's studio; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10-11, 1875, lot 241 (bought by Tedesco) or possibly lot 254 (bought by Sano)
Baron Freiherr M. von Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Darmstadt
Heinrich Stinnes, Cologne
Sale: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, November 25-27, 1974, lot 1297, illustrated
Sale: Ader Picard Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 15, 1990, lot 3, illustrated
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 27, 1992, lot 176, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Harrison, Dessins de J. F. Millet reproduits en photographie inaltérable par Harrison, Paris, 1875, pl. 12
L. Souillé, Les Grand Peintres aux ventes publiques, vol. 2: Peintres, aquarelles, pastels, dessins de Jean-François Millet relevés dans les catalogues de ventes 1849 à 1900, Paris, 1900, p. 176
Etienne Moreau-Nélaton, Millet raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1921, p. 51 (a discussion of Millet's commission for the etching of the present work's composition)
Robert L. Herbet, Jean-François Millet, exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 1975, discussed under no. 136

Condition

This work is clean and in excellent condition overall. It is hinged at the top using two pieces of archival tape. There are no tears or other apparent issues.
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Catalogue Note

Millet first encountered the distinctively dressed goatherds of Auvergne during a visit to Vichy in 1866.  With their conical straw hats, heavy shawls and tall distaffs tucked under their arms, the women seemed to him to have stepped from another age.  La fileuse Auvergnate was drawn as preparation for a specially commissioned etching late in 1868 but Millet continued to use the drawing as a model for several pastels and paintings throughout the last decade of his career.