Fisherman's Wife
Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875), c. 1848
oil on canvas, 46.9 cm x 39 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0264
- Dimensions
- 46.9 cm x 39 cm, 77 cm x 68.5 cm, 10 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Georges Petit at Hôtel Drouot (Vente par suite du Départ de Mme***), lot 113 (La Femme du pêcheur), purchased by Arnold & Tripp, Paris for FRF 2100, 2 June 1883; sold by Arnold & Tripp to E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, The Hague for FRF 3500, 25 August 1883; sold by E.J. van Wisselingh & Co to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague, in or before 1886; 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
Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum, Van Gogh. The adventure of becoming an artist, 22 February-10 April 2011
Fukuoka, Kyushu National Museum, Van Gogh. The adventure of becoming an artist, 28 December 2010-13 February 2011
Tokyo, National Art Center, Van Gogh.The adventure of becoming an artist, 1 October-20 December 2010
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Franse passie : Courbet, Daubigny, Monet: Franse schilderkunst in Nedelands bezit, 11 November 2006-11 March 2007
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Hergebruik van schilderijen, 12 December 2003-5 September 2004
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 338-339
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 227
Veldink, Suzanne, 'Be-marised or bemused!' R.T. Hamilton Bruce and the international exhibition of 1886, p. 53