Art Institute of Chicago
The Keeper of the Flock
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)LinkedCulture matchlcp-b576cadb6fae
- Date
- 1871–74
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 4776
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Provenance
- The artist; his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1875, lot 37 for 4,700 francs [price according to Soullié 1900]. Madame de la Hault, countess of Toict., Brussels [lent by her to Paris 1887]. Possibly Brame et Lorenceau, Paris, 1890 [according to an annotation in a copy of the 1914 sale catalogue, below]. Archibald Coats, Woodside, Paisley, by 1901 [lent to Glasgow 1901]; sold Christie’s, London, July 3, 1914, lot 110, to Knoedler & Co. for £5,880 as La gardienne du troupeau [buyer and price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; Knoedler & Co.; sold to Roebel and Reinhardt Galleries, September 1914 for $62,500, probably acting as agents for Mrs. W. W. Kimball [according to the Knoedler & Co. stockbook 6, no. 13527]; Mrs. W. W. Kimball, by February 1915 [according to New York Times 1915]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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