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The Goosegirl
- 1866-67
- Oil on canvas
- 45.7 x 55.9 cm
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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.
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ARTIST
Jean-François Millet
(1814-1875)
Exhibit history
- Jul 9, 2021 (Fri)～Aug 29, 2021 (Sun)
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan) - Dec 15, 2020 (Tue)～Jan 31, 2021 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Sep 12, 2020 (Sat)～Nov 3, 2020 (Tue)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan) - Jul 22, 2020 (Wed)～Sep 6, 2020 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) - Feb 20, 2020 (Thu)～Apr 12, 2020 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan) - Nov 2, 2019 (Sat)～Dec 22, 2019 (Sun)
“Rendez-vous” through Arts―East Meets West― Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi (Osaka, Japan) - Sep 3, 2019 (Tue)～Oct 22, 2019 (Tue)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan) - Jan 12, 2019 (Sat)～May 4, 2019 (Sat)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China) - Oct 23, 2018 (Tue)～Dec 23, 2018 (Sun)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China) - Apr 29, 2017 (Sat)～Jun 25, 2017 (Sun)
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan) - Jul 9, 2016 (Sat)～Aug 28, 2016 (Sun)
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan) - Jun 27, 2015 (Sat)～Aug 30, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan) - Apr 29, 2015 (Wed)～Jun 21, 2015 (Sun)
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan) - Nov 1, 2014 (Sat)～Dec 14, 2014 (Sun)
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan) - Sep 10, 2014 (Wed)～Oct 23, 2014 (Thu)
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) - Jul 19, 2014 (Sat)～Aug 31, 2014 (Sun)
Jean-François Millet, Gaze at the Loved Ones Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamanashi, Japan) - Apr 27, 2013 (Sat)～Jul 15, 2013 (Mon)
La beauté des paysages de France The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan) - Sep 17, 2010 (Fri)～Nov 23, 2010 (Tue)
Present of Brilliant nature & light from Barbizon to Musashino Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) - Jul 14, 2007 (Sat)～Nov 25, 2007 (Sun)
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan) - Apr 22, 2005 (Fri)～May 29, 2005 (Sun)
Impressionists and Great Masters of Western Paintings Yatsushiro Municipal Museum (Kumamoto, Japan) - Aug 1, 2003 (Fri)～Aug 31, 2003 (Sun)
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan) - Apr 18, 2003 (Fri)～May 25, 2003 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Jan 2, 2003 (Thu)～Jan 26, 2003 (Sun)
Great Masters of Modern Japanese Oil Paintings Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan) - Nov 8, 2002 (Fri)～Nov 24, 2002 (Sun)
Great Masters of Modern Paintings Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (Nagasaki, Japan) - Sep 7, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 29, 2002 (Sun)
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection SOGO Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) - Jul 20, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 1, 2002 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Hida Takayama Museum of Art (Gifu, Japan) - Jun 7, 2002 (Fri)～Jun 23, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan) - May 11, 2002 (Sat)～Jun 2, 2002 (Sun)
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan) - Apr 13, 2002 (Sat)～May 6, 2002 (Mon)
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Oct 1, 2000 (Sun)～Dec 3, 2000 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) - Feb 22, 1996 (Thu)～Mar 24, 1996 (Sun)
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan) - Jan 5, 1996 (Fri)～Feb 12, 1996 (Mon)
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan) - Nov 11, 1995 (Sat)～Dec 23, 1995 (Sat)
Millet, Corot, and Barbizon Masters: Discovery of Beloved Nature and Life Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Hyogo, Japan) - Oct 16, 1992 (Fri)～Nov 5, 1992 (Thu)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China) - Nov 3, 1991 (Sun)～Dec 8, 1991 (Sun)
Jean-François Millet Retrospective Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamanashi, Japan) - Oct 3, 1991 (Thu)～Oct 27, 1991 (Sun)
Jean-François Millet Retrospective Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan) - Aug 10, 1991 (Sat)～Sep 23, 1991 (Mon)
Jean-François Millet Retrospective The Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan) - Nov 3, 1990 (Sat)～Dec 2, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea) - Sep 22, 1990 (Sat)～Oct 21, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Origin of collections
- 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
Reference
Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, no.195, The Toledo Museum, Toledo, 1912
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