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Property from a Private Collection

Jean-François Millet

Moulin à l'eau

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Jean-François Millet

1814 - 1875


Moulin à l'eau

signed J.F. Millet (lower right)

pastel on paper

16 ½ by 19 ⅞ in.

41.9 by 50.5 cm.

Executed circa 1867-68.


We are grateful to Alexandra R. Murphy for assisting with this catalogue note.

Émile Gavet, Paris (commissioned from the artist circa 1867-68)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-12 June 1875, lot 92 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection

Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1996, lot 30 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner