Two Figures in a Landscape (Les Errants)

Two Figures in a Landscape (Les Errants)

Estimated: mid 19th century
Artist
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814-1875
Born: France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1934.14
Credit Line
The William D. Lippitt Memorial Collection at the Denver Art Museum

Jean-François Millet, Two Figures in a Landscape (Les Errants), mid 19th century. Oil paint on canvas; 19 ¼ × 15 in. (48.9 × 38.1 cm). The William D. Lippitt Memorial Collection at the Denver Art Museum, 1934.14

Dimensions
image height: 19.25 in, 48.8950 cm; image width: 15 in, 38.1000 cm; frame height: 24 in, 60.96 cm; frame width: 19 3/4 in, 50.165 cm; frame depth: 2 5/8 in, 6.6675 cm
Inscription
[lower right] J.F. Millet
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
(Arnold and Tripp, Paris), until 1881; purchased August 31, 1881 from (Arnold and Tripp) by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased November, 28 1881 from (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) by Henry [1847-1907] and Louisine [1855-1929] Havemeyer [M. Knoedler & Co. sales book n. 5, Millet, stock n. 3388]; by descent to Horace Havemeyer [1886-1956], Manhattan, NY, by 1931; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1934.
Exhibition History
  • "The Tie that Binds: Nineteenth Century Realism"—Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 12/02/1999 - 05/06/2000