La Baratteuse (The Butter Churner)
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875
1855
Etching on japan paper
Plate: 7 × 4 11/16 in. (17.8 × 11.9 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 5 1/2 in. (20.3 × 14 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.26
Printer
Auguste Delâtre, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center to lower right: Impe par Aug. Delatre, Rue St Jacques 171.
Exhibition History
French Art in the Age of George Sand; Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection; to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustre, vol. 1, no. 10.
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