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Peasant Watering Her Cow

Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
about 1863

Medium/Technique Oil over black conté crayon on canvas
Dimensions 46 x 55.5 cm (18 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1509
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Murphy 105
InscriptionsLower right: J. F. M.
ProvenanceAbout 1863, possibly Ennemond Blanc (dealer), Paris. Alfred Sensier (b. 1815 - d. 1877), Paris; December 10-18, 1877, Sensier sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 52, sold to Alphonse Legrand (dealer), Paris, probably for Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy A. Shaw, Jr. and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)