Peasant Spreading Manure (Paysan répandant du fumier)

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Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875), 1851

oil on canvas, 37.3 cm x 55.2 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij and the members of the Yellow House Circle)

Object number
s0553S2023
Dimensions
37.3 cm x 55.2 cm, 65.5 cm x 83 cm
Provenance
August Belmont, New York; after his death on 24 November 1890 inherited by his son August Belmont Jr.; after his death on 10 December 1924 inherited by his widow Eleanor Robson Belmont; sold by her to Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1972; sold by them to a collector, Japan, probably Gallery Sun Motoyama, Japan, before March 1973; auction New York, Sotheby’s (Important 19th century European paintings), lot 40 (Paysan répandant du fumier), purchased by a private collector, Japan for USD 250.000, 29 October 1981; sold by this private collector to Ekyn Maclean, New York, in 2016; sold by them to Driscoll Babcock, New York; sold by them to private collectors, United States; sold by them through Coleman Bancroft LLC, New York to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 12 July 2023.
artist
Jean-François Millet
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij and the members of the Yellow House Circle)

New York, National Academy of Design, Loan exhibition, 1893, no. 24

La Farge, J., The higher life in art : a series of lectures on the Barbizon School of France inaugurating the scammon course at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1908, z.p.

Moreau-Nelaton, Etienne, Millet : raconté par lui-même, 1921, Tome premier, p. 93

Catalogue : loan exhibition 1893, 1893, p. 15

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