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13. The Departure for the Fields Le Depart pour Les Champs

1863 Black chalk with touches of white chalk on paper 17¼ x 11¾ in. (44 x 30 cm) Stamped lower right: Lugt 1460b and verso: Lugt 1816a

PROVENANCE The artist’s posthumous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 10-11, 1875, lot 179 (or 206); Possibly Charles Tillot, friend of the artist; Collection Marmontel, his sale, Drouot, March 28-29, 1898, no. 157, under the title Le Depart pour les Champs ; Collection Alfred Beurdeley, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, November 30-December 1-2, 1920, lot 323; Collection Teddy Naggar, Paris; sold to a Japanese collector through Hiroko Saeki, New York City, 1984; Private collection, Japan. LITERATURE Louis Soullie. “J.F. Millet” in Les Grands Peintres aux Ventes Publiques . 1900, Paris, p. 167-168 referred to under “Ouvres en rapport.” Société de Reproduction des Dessins de Maitres (from the Beurdeley Collec- tion), Paris, 1912, Vol. 4 ; Robert L. Herbert, Michel Laclotte, and Roseline Bacou. Jean-François Millet : Hayward Gallery, 22 January-7 March 1976. London: Arts Council of Great Brit- ain, 1976, under no. 93, p. 152; Murphy, Alexandra R. Jean-François Millet : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhi- bition Catalogue. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1984, under number 106, pp. 152-154. EXHIBITIONS Paris, L’Exposition Universelle de 1900, Exposition Centennale de Art Francais , April 14 - November 12, 1900, no. 1193; St. Petersburg, Russia, L’Exposition Universelle de 1900, Exposition Centennale de l’Art Francais à Saint-Petersbourg under the title: Le Depart pour le Travail , 1912, no. 427;