Gruel (Woman Feeding Her Child)
Original Language TitleLa Bouillie
Artist
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814 - 1875)
Date1861
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (18.42 × 15.88 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 7 1/2 inches (27.94 × 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 7 1/2 inches (27.94 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/119
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelGruel (Woman Feeding Her Child) was commissioned by Philippe Burty for an article he wrote on Millet’s etchings that appeared in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, a new art journal. Burty was particularly impressed with this print, which reproduces a painting Millet exhibited at the Salon of 1861, as he felt it captured the delicate nuances of light and form seen in the original painting.
Frances M. Logan (1855-1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946;
Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
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