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8 - Jean-François MILLET 1814–1875
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Estimate €500,000 - €800,000
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Jean-François MILLET 1814–1875 Fishing Boat – circa 1870–1871 Oil on canvas Signed lower left ‘J.F. Millet’ 32.5 cm × 40.5 cm Provenance: The artist’s studio His posthumous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Maître Pillet, 10–11 May 1875, lot 39 (6,300 francs), his red wax seal on the stretcher on the reverse James Duncan Collection (1834–1905), London Victor Desfossés Collection (1835–1899), Paris His sale, Paris, Messrs Chevallier and Duchesne, 26 April 1899, lot 43 (39,000 francs) Acquired at this sale by Ernest Cognacq (1839–1928), Paris Gabriel Cognacq (1880–1951) Collection, his nephew, Paris His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Messrs Bellier, Ader and Thullier, 14 November 1952, lot 31 (940,000 francs) Private collection Then passed down through the family Auction, Paris, Artcurial, 19 November 2020, lot 138 Acquired at this sale by the current owner Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection Exhibitions: Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, J.-F. Millet, 1887, no. 42, p. 51 (incorrect height) Paris, Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité, ‘French Art in the Service of French Science’, April–May 1923, no. 202 Paris, La Samaritaine de luxe, autumn 1926 Paris, Palais national des Arts, Masterpieces of French Art, Paris, June–October 1937, no. 369 (according to a label on the reverse) Venice, Venice, 21st Biennale of Fine Arts, Mostra Internazionale del Paesaggio del Secolo XIX – France, 1938, no. 357, p. 88 (according to a label on the reverse) Bibliography: A. Piedagnel, J.-F. Millet, *Souvenirs de Barbizon*, Paris, 1888, mentioned on p. 71 *Le Figaro illustré*, no. 109, April 1899, reproduced C. Gronkowski, “Quelques souvenirs sur M. Cognacq”, in *La Revue hebdomadaire*, Paris, March 1928, p. 120 *Connaissance des arts*, no. 10, 15 December 1952, reproduced on p. 35 P. Cabanne, “The Cognacqs”, in *Jardin des arts*, no. 179, October 1969, reproduced on p. 80 (photograph of Gabriel Cognacq’s bedroom) B. Couilleaux, “The Cognacq Collection: Between Bequest and Dispersal”, in *Choisir Paris: Major Donations to the Museums of the City of Paris*, Paris, INHA, 2015, cited on p. 50 D. Rykner, “From Ribera to Millet: the art market (re)confined”, in *La Tribune de l’art*, 17 November 2020, fig. 7 Commentary: Oil on canvas, signed lower left; 12 3/4 x 16 in.
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