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Jean-François Millet: The Goose Girl  wikidata:Q18748871 reasonator:Q18748871
Artist
Jean-François Millet  (1814–1875)  wikidata:Q148458 s:en:Author:Jean-François Millet q:en:Jean-François Millet
 
Jean-François Millet
Alternative names
Jean-François Millet (II)
Description French plower, painter, engraver, architectural draftsperson, photographer and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 4 October 1814 Edit this at Wikidata 20 January 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gruchy near Cherbourg (Manche) Barbizon Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
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artist QS:P170,Q148458
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Goose Girl
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre nude Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A young girl, identifiable as a peasant by her kerchief and her work-roughened hands and feet, extends her leg to dip a heel into the stream. In this painting, Millet refers to a long tradition in European art of depicting the idealized female nude in a natural setting, often in the guise of a mythological figure. The artist reworks this convention from a Realist perspective, emphasizing the goose girl's working-class status, adolescent body, and vulnerable pose. Millet developed this composition through numerous studies made over a period of seven years.
Date circa 1863
date QS:P571,+1863-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 38 cm (14.9 in); width: 46.5 cm (18.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,38U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,46.5U174728
; with frame: height: 58.2 cm (22.9 in); width: 66.6 cm (26.2 in); depth: 11.4 cm (4.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,58.26U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,66.68U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,11.43U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.153
Place of creation France
Object history
  • Ennemond Blanc [dealer], 1865, by purchase [from the artist]
  • Van Praet, Brussels [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • J. Saulnier, Bordeaux [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Mme Vve. Saulnier Sale, Paris, 1886, no. 64 [illus. 29]
  • Sedelmeyer Sale, Paris, March 25, 1892, no. 10
  • Henri Heugel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Henri Heugel Sale, Paris, May 26, 1905, no. 12
  • 1905: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1951. Birth of Impressionism. Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York. 1963. Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle, A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. 1964-1965. Before Monet: Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters: Highlights from The Walters Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998. Drawn into the Light: Jean-François Millet. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh; Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, AJ Amsterdam. 1999-2000. Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton. 2000-2002. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. The Road to Impressionism: Landscapes from Corot to Manet. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004-2005. The Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh. 2008-2009. 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin. 2010-2011.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1905
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Signature bottom left:

J. F. Millet
References
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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The Goose Girl (1863). Oil on canvas, 38 x 46.5 cm (14.9 x 18.3 in). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

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