Artist: Jean-François Millet, 1814-1875

Title: Vert-Vert (The Nuns' Parrot)

Date: 1839

Medium: Oil on canvas

Description: Provenance: Madame Bonnel; Brame and Lorenceau, Paris (1968); Gallery Iida, Tokyo; Private Collection, Japan (by 1976) Exhibited: Tokyo, Gallery Isetan, 'Millet, Corot, Courbet et L'Ecole de Barbizon', 1976-77, no. 42. This exhibition traveled to Utsunomiya, Kumamoto, Nara and Nagoya; Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, 'Jean-Francois Millet et L'Ecole de Barbizon', 1979, no. 35 Literature: A. Sensier and P. Mantz, 'La Vie et L'Oeuvre de J.-F. Millet', Paris, 1881, p. 68; E. Moreau-Nélaton, 'Millet raconté par lui-même', Paris, 1921, Vol. I, p. 31, fig. 8; Y. Iida, 'J.F. Millet', Tokyo, 1979, p. 192, fig. 3 (illustrated)

Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 16 in.

Framed Dimensions: 26 3/8 x 29 5/8 in.

Inventory Number: 404867