Shepherdess Resting (Noon)

Artists

Dimensions

28.1 x 41.5 cm (11 1/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Marguerite Sensier (by 1881). [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY (by 1937-1940), sold, February 27, 1940]; to Edward M.M. Warburg, New York, NY (1940-1960), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960. Notes: 1. According to Alfred Sensier’s book “Jean-François Millet: Peasant and Painter” (1881; p. 82) the drawing was in the collection of Marguerite Sensier. Alfred Sensier died in 1877 and the book was completed and published posthumously. 2. It was initially thought that the drawing may have sold at the artist’s estate sale at Durand-Ruel, Paris, on April 25, 1894 because Frits Lugt erroneously associated the drawing’s mark (L.1460) with this sale (see 2010 addenda to L.1460 and L.3728 at the Fondation Custodia online). 3. The drawing is listed as number 6632 in the following Jacques Seligmann & Co. stock catalogues (Jacques Seligmann & Co. archives, Archives of American Art online): 1937-1938, 1938-1939, 1940-1941. The drawing may have been at Seligmann’s before 1937; it was sold in 1940. 4. In a letter to Edward M. M. Warburg dated February 29, 1940, Jacques Seligmann & Co. confirms the full payment of the invoice dated February 27 for this Millet drawing.