Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 708

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET
(Gréville-Hague 1814-1875 Barbizon)
Three drawings.

A Woman at the Stove with a Rabbit at her Feet, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper * A Resting Man, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper * A Seated Figure, black chalk on cream laid paper. Each circa 1845-48. Each with the artist's estate ink stamp (Lugt 1815, versos). Various sizes.

Provenance: Sir William Rothenstein, London; Max Rutherston, London, with the label; private collection, New York.

Exhibited: "Works on paper," Max Rutherston, London, April 1991.

With a letter confirming the authenticity of the drawings from Robert L. Herbert, Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, dated June 15, 1989.