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Woman Feeding Her Child (La Bouillie)

Jean-François Millet1861

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Woman Feeding Her Child (La Bouillie)
  • Creator: Jean-François Millet
  • Date Created: 1861
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned; inscribed in margin, recto: “Très rare”
  • Print State: Second of six states
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
  • Materials & Techniques: Etching printed in brown ink (and printed on verso, a lithograph by Pradier and Ruffent, “La Poesie Légère—”) on wove paper
  • Keywords: children (people by age group), domestic genre, genre, print states
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 213 mm x 163 mm (8.39 in. x 6.42 in.). Sheet dimensions: 310 mm x 242 mm (12.2 in. x 9.53 in.).
  • Bibliography: Melot 17 ii/vi; Delteil 17 ii/v; LeBrun 18
  • Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
  • Accession Number: 1937.D1.126
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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