Jean Francois Millet by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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and given to his friend Charlier. It afterwards became the property of
Sensier.. 1. _Going to Work_, one of several versions of the subject in different mediums, oil, pastel, drawing, and etching. This picture was painted in 1851, and was at one time (1891) in a private collection in Glasgow.[1] It is to be distinguished from the picture of 1850, where the woman carries a pitcher instead of a rope.[2] 2. _The Knitting Lesson_, a drawing corresponding in general composition, with some changes of detail, to the small painting (17 by 14-1/2 in.) of the subject in the collection of Mrs. Martin Brimmer, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 3. _The Potato Planters_, painted in 1862, and exhibited at the great exhibition at Paris of that year, also again in 1867 at the International Exhibition. It changed hands for large sums during the painter's lifetime, and is now in the Quincy A. Shaw collection, Boston, Mass. 4. _The Woman Sewing by Lamplight_, painted in 1872, and sold in 1873 for 38,500 francs, the highest price at that time ever paid for one of Millet's works. 5. _The Shepherdess_, painted in 1862, and exhibited at the Salon of 1864, also again at the Exposition Universelle of 1867. It is now in the collection of M. Chauchard. 6. _The Woman Feeding Hens_, a charcoal sketch, corresponding in general composition to the description of a painting bearing the same |
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