Classical Landscape with Two Women and a Man on a Path

European Painting and Sculpture

1660/70

Attributed to Jean François Millet I, called Francisque Millet
French, 1642-1679

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Artist: Jean François Millet, I
Title: Classical Landscape with Two Women and a Man on a Path
Origin: France
Date: 1660–1670
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29.5 × 44.1 cm (11 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Dellora A. Norris
Reference Number: 1970.1008

W. A. P. “The Angell Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17, 6 (1923), p. 52.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 170, no. 2308.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 190.
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1970–1971 (Chicago, 1971), p. 26.
Pierre Rosenberg, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, exh. cat. (Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1982), p. 365, appendix no. 8, ill.
Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), p. 231.
Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day (London and New York, 1992), vol. 1, p. 245; vol. 2 pp. 62, 497.
Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 104–6, ill.

John Warne Gates (died 1911), St. Charles, Illinois; his widow, Dellora Baker Gates (died 1918) [according to a letter from A. B. Hussander to the Art Institute dated February 8, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to her niece, Dellora A. Norris, née Angell, married to Lester J. Norris in 1923 [according to the letter cited above]; on loan to the Art Institute in the name of her father, Robert Francis Angell, from 1923; given to the Art Institute, 1970.

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