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Women Carrying Faggots

ca. 1858
Not on view
This extraordinary drawing in charcoal and gouache was once in the collection of the Dutch landscape painter Hendrick Mesdag (1831-1915), a collector of French artists of the Barbizon School. Millet was fascinated by the sight of peasants gathering, cutting, binding, and carrying faggots in the forest of Fontainebleau, his native landscape for much of his life. The Lehman sheet may relate to a painting of the same title now in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Women Carrying Faggots
  • Artist: Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon)
  • Date: ca. 1858
  • Medium: Charcoal heightened with white gouache, charcoal border, on heavy laid gray-blue paper
  • Dimensions: 13 1/2 × 10 7/8 in. (34.3 × 27.6 cm)
    Framed: 22 5/8 in. × 19 7/8 in. × 1 3/8 in. (57.5 × 50.5 × 3.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.671
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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