LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel and crayon noir over pencil on paper laid down on board

Measurements:

19.72 in. (50.10 cm.) (height) by 24.49 in. (62.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'J F Millet' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, No. 7 rue Saint-Georges, Dessins de Millet provenant de la collection de M. Émile Gavet, 6 April - 6 May 1875, no. 39, as Coucher de soleil sur une plaine.Paris, L'École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de J. F. Millet, 1887, p. 74, no. 110.Paris, Exposition universelle, 1889, p. 32, no. 435.

Literature:

Y. Takano, exh. cat., "The Chronicle of Introduction of the works of J. F. Millet into Japan", Jean-François Millet, Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, 1991, p. 214, no. 11.

Provenance:

Emile Gavet, Paris, by 1875.Ernest May, by 1887.His sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 June 1890, lot 81.Henri Vever, Paris.His sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 February 1897, lot 133.with Galerie Tamenaga, Tokyo.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981.