Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

1864

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81.1 × 100 cm (31 15/16 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 120.1 × 138.5 × 19.1 cm (47 1/4 × 54 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Collection no.: 1894.1063
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-François Millet. Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

About this artwork

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields — Jean-François Millet. 1864.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 81.1 × 100 cm (31 15/16 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 120.1 × 138.5 × 19.1 cm (47 1/4 × 54 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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