1963.144: Portrait of Madame Alfred Sensier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1963.144

People

Jean-François Millet, French (Gruchy 1814 - 1875 Barbizon)

Title

Portrait of Madame Alfred Sensier

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296667

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk and pastel on white paper

Dimensions

32.4 × 25.4 cm (12 3/4 × 10 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Alfred Sensier, Paris. Possibly Mme. Duhamel. [Cesar de Hauke of Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, sold, October, 1938]; to Paul Sachs, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.

Notes:
1. Mme. Duhamel is listed under previous collections on the object's accession documentation.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1963

Object Number

1963.144

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Julien Cain and Paul Leprieur, Millet: 48 planches hors-texte, Librairie centrale des beaux-arts (Paris, 1913), p. 26
• "Dessins de J.-F. Millet (chez Brame)", La Renaissance (Paris, March 1938), p. 66, repr. p. 66
• Galerie Brame, J.-F. Millet, dessinateur: exposition de quelques œuvres, exh. cat. (Paris, 1938), no. 47
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 713, fig. 382
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 51
• 19th Century French Drawings, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, CA, 1947), no. 44 p. 34
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 138, pl. 146
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 138, pl. 133
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 138, p. 97, pl. 133, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 51, repr.
• Laurent Manœuvre, Jean-François Millet: Pastels et dessins, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2002), p. 43 repr.

Exhibition History

• J.-F. Millet, dessinateur: exposition de quelques œuvres, Galerie Brame, 01/31/1938 - 02/19/1938
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
• 19th century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/08/1947 - 04/06/1947
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967

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