Object number2014.17

Le Départ pour le travail (Going to Work)

Date1863

Artist Jean-François Millet (French, 1814 - 1875)

CultureFrench

MediumEtching on chine collé, with surface tone, on buff wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 19 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (49.21 x 36.83 cm)
Image: 14 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (37.15 x 29.53 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, gift of the estate of Gertude B. Pascal, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Ossorio, Mrs. David M. Solinger, and Jean S. Kelly in memory of Dr. Nick Appy, by exchange

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Catalogue raisonnéDelteil 19 (I/VII); Melot 19 (I/VII); Beraldi 20 (I/IV)ProvenanceEx collection: Zitman (German collector, beginning of the 20th century) (L. 651a); Henri Marie Petiet (1894 Saint Prix - 1951 Paris; Dr. S. William Pelletier (1925 - 2004 Athensw, GA, USA)

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