Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10-11, 1875, Millet sale, probably lot 202, to Febvre [letter from Jill Newhouse of Sept. 24, 1996 in curatorial file]. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837-1913), New York [New York 1972 auc. cat.]; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee (née Louisa Pierpont Morgan, 1900-1946), New York [handwritten note on the back of the frame by Philip Kappel of Apr. 22, 1948]; by descent to her husband, Herbert L. Satterlee (1863-1947), New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, Apr. 22, 1948, lot 2. Philip Kappel (1901-1981), New Milford, Conn. [New York 1972 auc. cat.]. Mrs. Frasier McCann, New York; sold, Sotheby's, New York, Dec. 5, 1975, lot 171, to Gallery Iida, Tokyo [Newhouse letter; Williamstown, Mass. 1996]. Private collection, Tokyo, until around 1996 [Newhouse letter]. Sold by Jill Newhouse, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Accession Number
145832
Medium
Black and brown Conté crayon, with pen and black ink and traces of black pastel, over gray washes, on cream wove paper, edge-mounted on laminated woodpulp board
Dimensions
31.7 × 40.7 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.)
Classification
conté crayon
Credit Line
The Regenstein Collection
