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Jean-François Millet
A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville1871

Not on view
Full-length oil painting of a woman in peasant dress carrying a large straw basket on her shoulder, walking across a green hillside under a cloudy sky
Artist or Maker
Jean-François Millet
France, Gruchy, 1814-1875
Title
A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville
Place Made
France
Date Made
1871
Medium
Oil on canvas mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
31 1/2 × 21 7/8 in. (80.01 × 55.56 cm) Frame: 44 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 3 in. (113.03 × 87.63 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
Accession Number
M.81.259.4
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

The artist, sold to or through; [Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris]. Laurent Richard, Paris, by 1878. J. M. Rhodes, New York, sold 1902 to; [Paul Durand-Ruel, New York, sold 1902 to]; Charles M. Schwab, New York (sale, New York, Tobias, Fischer and Co., 24 Apr. 1940, lot 49, bought in), by inheritance to; Edward H. Schwab, Westport, CT. [Kleinberger, New York, in 1941]. [Vose Galleries, Providence and Boston, 1942]. [John Nicholson, New York and London, in 1943]. [Arthur Tooth Gallery, Los Angeles? in 1957]. Howard F. Ahmanson (1906–1968), Los Angeles, to; Dorothy Grannis Sullivan (1908–1979), Los Angeles, by 1973, through inheritance to her son; Howard Ahmanson, Jr. (b. 1950), Los Angeles, gift 1981 to; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.