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The Sheepshearers
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)LinkedCulture matchlcp-b576cadb6fae
- Date
- c. 1857–61
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 81522
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- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Provenance
- The artist; his studio sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1875, lot 26 for 7,100 francs [price according to Soullié 1900]. James Duncan (died 1905), London, by 1880 [lent by him to Glasgow 1880]; sold to Boussod, Valadon & Cie., April 12, 1886, for 6,250 francs [according to Groupil stock book no. 17777]; sold to Henri Poidatz (died 1905), Paris, May 22, 1886, for 12,000 francs; sold back to Boussod, Valadon & Cie., December 17, 1888, for 18,000 francs [according to Goupil stock book no. 19589]; sold to Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, March 30, 1889 for 38,480 francs; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given by them to the Art Institute, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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