La Couseuse (Woman Sewing)

Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875

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1855

Etching on laid paper

Plate: 4 1/4 × 3 in. (10.8 × 7.6 cm)

Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (16.2 × 12.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P

PR.948.27.1

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: la couseuse Watermark: B.C.

Exhibition History

French Art in the Age of George Sand; Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.

Provenance

Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.

Catalogue Raisonne

L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustre, vol. 1, no. 9.

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