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From 1850 to 1853, Millet worked on Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz), [13] a painting he considered his most important, and on which he worked the longest. Conceived to rival his heroes Michelangelo and Poussin , it was also the painting that marked his transition from the depiction of symbolic imagery of peasant life to that of contemporary ...
Jean-François Millet was raised in the area of France known as the old province of Normandy. He was brought up with hard out-of-door labor. After studying to become a painter, he devoted his art to illustrating peasants farming the land. His subjects were often taken from his surroundings or from memories from his youth. [2]
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Along with Woman Pasturing Her Cow and The Gleaners, Man With a Hoe is a Millet painting that casts "a critical light on the conditions of rural labor under the Second Empire and explains [Millet's] sometimes marginal status in the regime's fine arts institutions." [7] The painting has long been seen to have a political and/or philosophical ...
No. 32A SHEPHERDESS BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET No. 32 JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET FRENCH (1814-1875) A SHEPHERDESS An intimate study of the life of a young peasant girl, whose time fromdawn to dark is passed in watching sheep, who looks forward to nothingbetter, save, perhaps, to becoming the wife of some peasant and to exchangethe exclusion of the ...
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Millet's The Gleaners was preceded by a vertical painting of the image in 1854 and an etching in 1855. Millet unveiled The Gleaners at the Salon in 1857. It immediately drew negative criticism from the middle and upper classes, who viewed the topic with suspicion: one art critic, speaking for other Parisians, perceived in it an alarming intimation of "the scaffolds of 1793."