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Réunis à l'école des Beaux_arts, Quai Malaquais par les soins d'un comité au profit de la souscription pour élever un monument à la mémoire du maître </EM>(Paris:Quantin, 1887)</P>, p. 49","date":1887,"id":5867,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/52321621"},{"boilertext":"Victor Champier, <EM>L'année artistique,</EM> deuxième année (1880):134","citation":"Victor Champier, <EM>L'année artistique,</EM> deuxième année (1880):134, p. 134","date":1880,"id":5868,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/944661539"},{"boilertext":"Louis Soullié,<EM> Les Grands peintres aux ventes publiques II, Jean- Francois Millet</EM> (Paris<EM>: </EM>Louis Soullié, 1900).","citation":"Louis Soullié,<EM> Les Grands peintres aux ventes publiques II, Jean- Francois Millet</EM> (Paris<EM>: </EM>Louis Soullié, 1900)., p. 35","date":1900,"id":5870,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/458969869"},{"boilertext":"Etienne Moreau-Nélaton,<em> Millet raconté par lui-même </em>(Paris: Henri Laurens Editeur, 1921).","citation":"Etienne Moreau-Nélaton,<em> Millet raconté par lui-même </em>(Paris: Henri Laurens Editeur, 1921)., pp. 71-74","date":1921,"id":5872,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/692496"},{"boilertext":"Robert L. 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Richard Turner. Begun around 1860, the work depicts a scene from rural life. Farmers, followed by the mother cow, solemnly convey a newborn calf to the barn. This sketched-in painting was abandoned when Millet decided to prepare a larger version of the same composition for exhibition in the French Salon, where it was shown in 1864. That painting, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, was already in the United States by 1887, so the present sketch was shown at the retrospective exhibition of Millet’s work held that year; Vincent van Gogh, who saw the painting there, lauded its power in a letter to his friend Émile Bernard. A strong and moving work, it is also a document of Millet's working method. This major addition to the collection joins the important Millet drawing in charcoal, <EM>The Goose Girl</EM>, given to the Museum by the Turners in 1985.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<SPAN lang=EN>\r\n<P dir=ltr align=left>Millet began this first version of his celebrated composition around 1860 but abandoned the canvas in order to paint a larger version, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, which he <SPAN lang=EN>exhibited at the Salon of 1864. Like Millet’s other scenes of rural life, the painting was criticized because the peasants were not idealized. Some critics also considered the solemn, almost religious, atmosphere of the procession to be at odds with the lowly subject matter. The Salon picture was purchased by an American, and this smaller, unfinished canvas was exhibited in its place at the commemorative Millet exhibition of 1887. Vincent van Gogh, who saw the painting there, described it in a letter to Émile Bernard as a work \"so powerful it made one tremble.\"</P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>","remarks":"K4-6 Rotation June 2018 (See K4-6 Rotation March 2014, January 2016 labels for similar text)"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>Alfred Saucede (a), (c)</p><p>Dutz (a), (b)</p><p>David C. Lyall, New York, 1903 (b)</p><p>John F. Dryden, Newark, New Jersey</p><p>Frank J. Mather Jr. (a)</p><p>Dr and Mrs A Richard Turner, Grinnell, Iowa, New York (a) (d)</p><p>(a) Catalogue, exhibition, \"French 19th century oil sketches: David to Degas,\" William Hayes Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 5- April 16, 1978, pp.103-104<br>(b) Catalogue, An Eastern Art Museum and other Collections Sale, Parke-Bernet, New-York, February @, 1950, p.28<br>(c) Catalogue, Alfred Saucede collection sale, Paris, February 14, 1879, p.30<br>(d) FARL Authority of Private Collections</p><p><br></p>","remarks":"as per FARL Authority File of Artists at the Frick Library New York / not vetted"}],"datebegin":1860,"sortnumber":"2010  119","published_date":"2026-02-11 12:25:51.778598","objectid":59768,"dimensions":"49.5 x 61 cm (19 1/2 x 24 in.)\r\nframe: 64.8 × 76.2 × 7 cm (25 1/2 × 30 × 2 3/4 in.)","on_view":false}