The Mendicant / Jean-François Millet

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Accession Number: 1955/1.107
Title: The Mendicant
Artist: Jean-François Millet
Artist Nationality: French
Artist Life Dates: 1814-1875
Medium and Support: black chalk on off-white paper
Object Creation Date: circa 1857-1858
Credit Line: Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
Inscription: Signed, l.r.: J.F. Millet
Dimensions: 38.5 cm x 44.4 cm (15 3/16 in. x 17 1/2 in.)
Century: 19th century
Primary Keywords: beggar; bread; charity; doors; interiors; kitchens; mother; table; window
Secondary Keywords: architecture; associated concepts; building divisions; components; components and systems; components by specific context; descriptors; family; food; genres; how we live; materials; materials by function; objects; people and culture; people and occupations; relationships; religious figures; rooms and spaces; rooms and spaces by function; social science concepts; sociological concepts; work and instructional spaces
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 488 x 419
File Size: 20 KB
Record: 1955/1.107
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1955-sl-1.107/1955_1.107.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Bayraktar, f16 - art of everyday life (24); 0 - Myers, f16 - mothers and daughters (18); Drawings for Art 1111 (11); Family (161); Home (131); Mothers and children (67); Mothers and daughters - a study room selection (24); Poverty (99); Social justice (347); Social justice and art in the 19th century (72); Social Realism, mid-19th century to mid-20th century (80)

Manifest: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/musart:1955-SL-1.107:1955_1.107.JPG

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Full citation: "The Mendicant; Jean-François Millet." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1955-sl-1.107/1955_1.107.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.