1866-67／Oil on canvas
45.7 x 55.9 cm
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum –
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 8, 2025
Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
SUMMARY
Millet, who had moved from Paris to Barbizon in the spring of 1849, exhibited at the 1867 Salon a work titled The Goose Girl, which is of the same title as this painting. The same year, he wrote of this Salon-exhibited work in a letter to his friend Sensier: “I want to make the screams of my geese ring through the air. Ah! life, life! the life of the whole!” This work The Goose Girl, previously owned by his friend Sensier, seems to have been painted at the same time and the same place as the above-mentioned Salon-exhibited work, and is a central piece of a series of his paintings on the theme of a “goose girl.” Millet applied oil paints so thinly that the underdrawing lines are almost visible, exquisitely representing the atmosphere of the summer sunlit waterfront with the watercolor-like effect. This subject of a goose girl is different in taste from Millet’s other paintings of religious nature that depict adult labors, and this painting purely represents an idyllic world. It is the masterpiece of his later years that beautifully depicts peasant life in harmony with natural environment.
ARTIST
Jean-François Millet
1814-1875
List of artworks by the same artist
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Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, June 8, 2025
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
Friday, July 26 - Monday, September 23, 2024
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Friday, July 9 - Sunday, August 29, 2021
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Wednesday, July 22 - Sunday, September 6, 2020
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Thursday, February 20 - Sunday, April 12, 2020
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan)
Saturday, November 2 - Sunday, December 22, 2019
“Rendez-vous” through Arts―East Meets West― Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi (Osaka, Japan)
Tuesday, September 3 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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Saturday, January 12 - Saturday, May 4, 2019
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Tuesday, October 23 - Sunday, December 23, 2018
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Saturday, April 29 - Sunday, June 25, 2017
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan)
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, August 28, 2016
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan)
Saturday, June 27 - Sunday, August 30, 2015
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan)
Wednesday, April 29 - Sunday, June 21, 2015
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan)
Saturday, November 1 - Sunday, December 14, 2014
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan)
Wednesday, September 10 - Thursday, October 23, 2014
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Saturday, July 19 - Sunday, August 31, 2014
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamanashi, Japan)
Saturday, April 27 - Monday, July 15, 2013
La beauté des paysages de France The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan)
Friday, September 17 - Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Saturday, July 14 - Sunday, November 25, 2007
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Friday, April 22 - Sunday, May 29, 2005
Impressionists and Great Masters of Western Paintings Yatsushiro Municipal Museum (Kumamoto, Japan)
Friday, August 1 - Sunday, August 31, 2003
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan)
Friday, April 18 - Sunday, May 25, 2003
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Thursday, January 2 - Sunday, January 26, 2003
Great Masters of Modern Japanese Oil Paintings Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan)
Friday, November 8 - Sunday, November 24, 2002
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Saturday, September 7 - Sunday, September 29, 2002
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Saturday, July 20 - Sunday, September 1, 2002
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Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2002
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Saturday, May 11 - Sunday, June 2, 2002
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Saturday, April 13 - Monday, May 6, 2002
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Sunday, October 1 - Sunday, December 3, 2000
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Thursday, February 22 - Sunday, March 24, 1996
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan)
Friday, January 5 - Monday, February 12, 1996
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)
Saturday, November 11 - Saturday, December 23, 1995
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Hyogo, Japan)
Friday, October 16 - Thursday, November 5, 1992
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China)
Sunday, November 3 - Sunday, December 8, 1991
Jean-François Millet Retrospective Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamanashi, Japan)
Thursday, October 3 - Sunday, October 27, 1991
Jean-François Millet Retrospective Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan)
Saturday, August 10 - Monday, September 23, 1991
Jean-François Millet Retrospective The Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
Saturday, November 3 - Sunday, December 2, 1990
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea)
Saturday, September 22 - Sunday, October 21, 1990
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Provenance: Alfred Sensier from artist (his sale, Paris 10-12 Dec.1877, no.51) Van Praet Collection, his loan to the Millet retrospective in Paris,1877, no.22 Henri Garnier (sale Paris,3-4 Dec.1894, no.69, illus.) Henri Heughel (sale Paris, 26 May1905 ,no.13,illus.) Mrs,H.N. Torrey, Detroit, by 1912 (her loan the Inaugural Exhibition,Toledo Museum of Art , 1912 no.195) Exhibited: Paris, MILLET, no.22, 1887 Toledo, The Toledo Museum, The Inaugural Exhibition, no.195, 1912
Literature: Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, no.195, The Toledo Museum, Toledo, 1912
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