The Tower of Chailly near Barbizon
Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875), 1873
oil on canvas, 91.6 cm x 118 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0263
- Dimensions
- 91.6 cm x 118 cm, 123.5 cm x 150.5 cm, 13.5 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Jean-François Millet), lot 48 (La Tour de Moulin à Vent), sold for FRF 1075, 10-11 May 1875; auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (34 Tableaux Modernes), lot 25 (La tour du Moulin), purchased by M. Sano for FRF 290, 26 February 1877; M. Duz, 1887; sold by E.J. van Wisselingh & Co to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for NLG 2200, 19 October 1889; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Jean-François Millet
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The Hague, De Mesdag Collectie, Jean-François Millet en de Haagse School, 13 September 2019-5 January 2020
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon), L'école de Barbizon : peindre en plein air avant l'impressionnisme, 22 June-9 September 2002
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 337-338
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 229
L'école de Barbizon : peindre en plein air avant l'impressionnisme, Lyon ; Paris, 2002, p. 250, 296