1978.32: The Month of August: The Gleaners
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1978.32
- People
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Jean-François Millet, French (Gruchy 1814 - 1875 Barbizon)
- Title
- The Month of August: The Gleaners
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1851-1852
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/295778
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk with erasure on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16 x 23 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- (not assigned): partial watermark at center lower edge
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.32
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 14
- Alexandra R. Murphy and Richard Rand, Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press (Williamstown, MA and New Haven, CT, 1999), cat. no. 39, repr. (color)
- Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 364
- Dessins anciens et du XIXe siècle, auct. cat., Christie's, Paris (Paris, March 24, 2021), under no. 106
Exhibition History
- The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
- The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
- Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 10/26/1999 - 01/05/2000; Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 02/10/2000 - 04/23/2000
- Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
Verification Level
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