The Woodchopper

Prints and Drawings

c. 1848–1850

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: The Woodchopper
Origin: France
Date: 1838–1850
Medium: Black chalk, on gray laid paper with blue and red fibers
Dimensions: 295 × 212 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Galerie Chalette
Reference Number: 1956.349
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Robert L. Herbert, “Millet Reconsidered,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 34, 57 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5C9.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Emile Joseph-Rignault (born 1874), Paris [Lugt 2218]. Given by Galerie Chalette to the Art Institute, 1956.

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