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Catalog of Pictures, 1910, 1929 [page 57]
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in graphite: 57 heading in green ink: Woman Sewing By The Lamp.
The "Woman Sewing By Lamplight" shows a young sunburned peasant, her hands coarsened by labor in the fields, sewing on a sheepskin by the flickering light of a rustic lamp. A sleeping child lies in a cradle beside her. In this picture, Millet's technical method is unusually evident. It was painted in 1872, and sold in the following year for 38,000 francs, the highest price which up to that time the artist had ever received for one of his works. symbol in green ink: Ŧ
......Later in the spring (1873) at an exhibition at the Hotel Drouot....I saw a painting by Millet -- a mother sewing by an oil lamp, her baby asleep beside her. The reality of this scene, the naturalness of movement, the perfection of expression, the charm, separated it
symbol in green ink: Ŧ Masters In Art.
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