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Entrance to the Forest at Barbizon in Winter
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
about 1866–67
Medium/Technique
Black conté crayon and pastel on gray-beige wove paper
Dimensions
51.5 x 40.6 cm (20 1/4 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1491
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPastels
Catalogue Raisonné
Murphy 131
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. Millet
ProvenanceCommissioned by Emile Gavet (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Paris; June 11-12, 1875, Gavet sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 18, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris. Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through his children, Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)