La Bouillie (Mother Feeding Her Baby)
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875
1861; restrike about 1906
Etching on wove paper
restrike
Plate: 6 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (15.8 × 13.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (26.6 × 22.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.943.21.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in ink, lower left margin: J. F. Millet 1861
Provenance
Living American Art, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1943.
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