The Barbizon School
prints & drawings
prints & drawings
- Chaigneau, Mouton
- Chaigneau, Studies of Sheep
- Chaigneau, Le Petit Troupeau
- Chaigneau, Femme Gardant
- Corot, Souvenir de Toscane
- Corot, Souvenir de Toscane
- Corot, Souvenir de la Villa
- Daubigny, Bord de la Mer
- Daubigny, L'Orage
- Daubigny, Le Grand Parc
- Daubigny, Le Cochon
- Daubigny, Lever de Lune
- Daubigny, Lever de Lune
- Daubigny, Le Mousse à la Pêche
- Daubigny, Les Vendanges
- Diaz, Les Folles Amoureuses
- Dupré, Fallen Tree in a Forest
- Français, Un Chemin
- Grenaud, Portrait of Corot
- Jacque, A Covered Wagon
- Jacque, Lisière du Bois
- Jacque, Frontispiece Design
- Jacque, Village au Bord
- Jacque, Porte d'Auberge
- Jacque, La Souricière
- Laurens, Clairière
- Lavieille, Les Travaux
- Lavieille, The Reaper
- Lazerges, The Sower
- Leroy, Le Bas Bréau
- Millet, Snails
- Millet, La Planche aux Croquis
- Millet, La Bouillie
- Millet, Feeding the Chickens
- Millet, Zoomorphic Rocks
- Rousseau, Route dans la Forêt
- Rousseau, Fête de Village
- Rousseau, In the Savoie
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34. Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) Feeding the Chickens |
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Feeding the Chickens
Black chalk, ca.1865, 87 x 70 mm., see Louvre, École Française, Vol. X, No. 10399. Provenance: artist's estate (Lugt 1460).
A compositional sketch in black chalk on grey-blue laid paper, signed with the artist's estate stamp; a miniscule hole in the paper and a few yellowish-white spots. The work is comparable to many of Millet's small sketches, though more complex and complete than most. This one is a study for La Provende des Oisons ou le Printemps, a pastel of
1865. It should be compared with the similar sketch in the Louvre.
