Jean-François MILLET (1814-1875) Fraternité Charcoal... Lot 32

Jean-François MILLET (1814-1875) Fraternité Charcoal on paper formerly pale blue 21.7 x 17.8 cm With frame: 38 x 33.5 cm Signed and dedicated lower right: J.F. Millet to / A. Sensier. In the lower center, the inscription: FRATERNITE. On the back, three sketches of an allegory of Equality. Provenance: Given by the artist to Alfred Sensier (1815-1877), Marguerite Sensier, his daughter, remained in his descendants. Exhibition: Jean-François Millet, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 1975-1976, catalogue edited by L. Herbert, R. Bacou and M. Laclotte, n° 44, p. 76. Bibliography: M.-C. Chaudonneret, La Figure de la République. Le concours de 1848, Paris, 1987, cited p. 90, and fig. 75, p. 219. Charcoal on formerly pale blue paper, signed and dediacted to A.Sensier lower right, at the bottom center, the inscription: FRATERNITE, on the reverse, three sketches of an allegory of Equality. 8.6 x 7 in, with frame : 15 x 13.2 in