Jean-François Millet

Study: Nude Woman Seen from the Back (recto) Sketches of Peasants Working (verso)

c. 1846

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Black crayon on gray laid paper, with blue fibers (discolored to buff with tan and blue fibers)

Dimensions

27.1 × 19.8 cm (10 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Collection no.

1952.61

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Jean-François Millet. Study: Nude Woman Seen from the Back (recto) Sketches of Peasants Working (verso), c. 1846. Inventory 1952.61. Jean-François Millet; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113448. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Full-source inspection confirms the complete seated nude study on the recto. The sketches of working peasants named for the verso are not shown.