17-7/8 x 14-7/8 in. 21-1/4 x 25 in. (framed)
The James E. Roberts Fund and gift of the Alumni Association of the John Herron Art School
Charles J. Morrill [1820-1895], Boston, Massachusetts; to his sister, Annie W. Morrill [born 1834], Boston, by 1905, and until at least 1921.{1} Possibly via (Vose Galleries, Boston) to (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York), in 1924.{2} Frederick T. Haskell [1854-1935], Chicago, Illinois; Art Institute of Chicago.{3} (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York) by 1949;{4} purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1949. {1} The painting was on loan to the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, in 1905; see MFA Bulletin, “Objects Newly Installed,” volume 3, no. 6 (December 1905), p. 48. In Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Millet Raconté par lui-même, volume 1, Paris, 1921, pp. 107, 126, fig. 63 the owner is listed as “Miss A. W. Morrill.” {2} Correspondence from Robert C. Vose to the IMA, dated 16 January 1952, refers to a Millet entitled Man with a Wheelbarrow, however the letter does not make clear if this reference is to a painting or a drawing of this subject; see IMA Historical File 49.48. {3} Millet’s Man with a Wheelbarrow is identified as one of forty paintings that came to the Art Institute of Chicago as the bequest of Frederick T. Haskell, see Bulletin of the AIC, volume 35, no. 7 (December 1941), p. 111. {4} See IMA, Temporary Receipt No. 5259, dated 12 April 1949.
Millet was a leading member of the Barbizon School of painters, which rose to prominence around 1850. Often working directly from nature, these artists devoted themselves to painting landscapes in the vicinity of the village of Barbizon and the forest of Fontainebleau, where Millet moved in 1849.
Millet often depicted scenes of peasants at work, and his knowledge of classical art helped him to create dignified, idealized images of laborers in the French countryside. With his simple farm tools and clothing, the peasant pushing his cart becomes a timeless symbol of a rapidly disappearing rural way of life.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 24, 1996 - April 2, 1996
Jean-François Millet
Hayward Gallery
January 22, 1976 - March 7, 1976
Jean-François Millet
Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais
October 17, 1975 - January 5, 1976
Civilization Revisited
Wichita Art Museum
December 4, 1971 - January 30, 1972
Exhibition
Springfield Art Association
February 20, 1967 - April 30, 1967
Opening Exhibition
Springfield Art Association
March 15, 1967 - April 9, 1967
Romantics and Realists
Wildenstein & Company, Inc.
April 7, 1966 - May 7, 1966
The Great Century: France 1800-1900
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
November 8, 1959 - November 29, 1959
Notable Paintings from Midwestern Collections
Joslyn Art Museum
November 30, 1956 - January 2, 1957
The Beginnings of Modern Painting in France, 1800-1910
Joslyn Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum
October 4, 1951 - November 4, 1951
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