From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections The Month of August: The Gleaners

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1978.32
People: 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 and white pastel on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 16 x 23 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

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
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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

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

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