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The Woodchopper
Jean François Millet · c. 1848–1850
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist [Lugt 1460]. Emile Joseph-Rignault (born 1874), Paris [Lugt 2218]. Given by Galerie Chalette to the Art Institute, 1956.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Robert L. Herbert, "Millet Reconsidered," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 34, 57 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5C9.
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