Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Museum
Return from the Fields
c. 1846–47
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
John W. Wilson. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 27-28 April 1874 (lot 113), Retour des Champs, ff 8,200. Fr...
Source provenance text
John W. Wilson. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 27-28 April 1874 (lot 113), Retour des Champs, ff 8,200. Frédéric Hartmann, Münster. His sale, Paris, Drouot, 11 May 1876 (lot 24), Retour des champs, 45 x 38 cm, ff 6,350. W. A. Coats, Scotland, 1901. London sale, Christie's, 10 June 1927 (lot 74), The Last Load, for £483 to Blaker. D. Croal Thompson, 1928. Howard Murray, Montreal. His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 23 October 1941 (lot 34, repr.), bought by L. J. Marion. Hazlitt Gallery, London. Purchased by the CMA in 1972.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Jean-François Millet. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 20-March 7, 1976); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (organizer) (October 17-January 5, 1976). Return to Nature: Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition. Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu (September 26-December 8, 1998). L'Ecole de Barbizon. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (organizer) (June 20-September 9, 2002). Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting 1820 - 1880. Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (organizer) (November 10, 2017-January 28, 2018). Glasgow. International Exhibition (1901), no. 1323, The Last Load, lent by W. A. Coats, Esq. Paris, Grand Palais; London, Hayward Gallery. Jean-François Millet (1975-76), no. 22 (repr.), (no. 12 in English cat.). Køfu, Japan. Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art. Return to Nature: J. F. Millet, the Barbizon Artists, and the Renewal of the Rural Tradition (1998), 22, 108, no. ii-13, 124 (repr.). Lyon, France. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. "L'Ecole de Barbizon" (6/20/2002 - 9/9/2002), exh cat no. 82, p.246.
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Sourced Overview Evidence
This idealized vision of noble peasant life was painted during a period of intense industrialization in France, accompanied by economic depression and the abandonment of farms. Nostalgic peasant scenes were especially popular in the 1840s, a stark contrast to the disillusionment and tension that would violently surface in the Revolution of 1848. The vague shapes and faces of the family seen here make them symbols of the land, rather than individuals.
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Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 1 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.
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