Jean-François Millet and Auguste Delâtre
La Baratteuse
1854
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 214 x 412 mm. (8 7/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Plate: 177 x 118 mm. (6 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.17785
This print was originally in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acquired in October 1913 as part of the Frederick Keppel Memorial Bequest). It was acquired by MICA in December 1921 in exchange for 3 Isabey lithographs from the Lucas Collection (see object file for correspondence with the MFA in 1996).
"Duplicates" of three Isabey lithographs - Croix de Chaudesaigues, Auvergne; Eglise St. Jean Thiers, Auvergne; Vue du Cap Finistère et de l'Eglise Saint-Mathias - were traded in 1921 by MICA with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for Jean-François Millet, La Baratteuse (1996.48.17785). See Object files for documentation from 1996.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.
BMA, "Selected Prints from the George A. Lucas Collection," 29 June - 29 August, 1976.
BMA, "Selected Prints from the George A. Lucas Collection," 29 June - 29 August, 1976.
Inscribed: Inscribed in plate: lower center "Impe. par [Aug. Delâtre, mostly effaced] Rue St. Jacque 17"
Markings: Collector's stamps: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "23384" in center in pencil (Lugt 282); Museum of Fine Arts Boston "Duplicate", "A. G. H.", "March 1922"; "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
