La Couseuse (Woman Sewing)
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875
1855
Etching on laid paper
Plate: 4 1/4 × 3 in. (10.8 × 7.6 cm)
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (16.2 × 12.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.948.27.1
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: la couseuse Watermark: B.C.
Exhibition History
French Art in the Age of George Sand; Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustre, vol. 1, no. 9.
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