Head of a Boy
c. 1846-1848
Artists
Dimensions
actual: 46.5 x 29.6 cm (18 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Mme Millet, the artist's widow; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 24-25, 1894, no. 86; purchased at that sale by Albert Cahen d'Anvers, Paris (d. 1903); Mme Albert Cahen d'Anvers, Paris (d. 1918); Scott and Fowles, New York, by 1922; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, October 1922 ($1,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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