The Bather, 1846/1848

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 18.5 x 24.1 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

framed: 32.9 x 38.7 x 5.4 cm (12 15/16 x 15 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Accession Number

1949.1.9

Artists / Makers

Jean-François Millet (artist) French, 1814 - 1875

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: J F Millet

Provenance

Adolph Edward Borie [1809-1880] and his wife, née Elizabeth Dundas McKean, Philadelphia; possibly purchased from Borie or at a sale by George C. Thomas, Philadelphia.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co, London, New York, and Paris), in 1905, and again on consignment in 1910;[2] sold 1910 to R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift 1949 to NGA.

[1] Lugt lists no Borie sale; the painting was not in the Thomas sale at Samuel Freeman, Philadelphia, 12-13 November 1924.

[2] Knoedler dates confirmed by Robert L. Herbert in a letter dated 15 November 1973 in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Borie, Adolph Edward
Borie, Adolph Edward, Mrs.
Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.
Thomas, George C.

Exhibition History

1939: Classics of the Nude, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1939, no. 22.

1967: Loan for display with permanent collection, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, 1967-1971.

2019: Jean-François Millet: Sowing the Seeds of Modern Art, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 2019 - 2020, no. 10, repro.

Bibliography

1915: Hoeber, Arthur. The Barbizon Painters. New York, 1915: repro. opposite 17.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 90.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 79, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 234, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 269, repro.

2000: Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 321-323, color repro.