Le Printemps, d'après un pastel de Millet
Medium
Etching; ninth state of nine
Dimensions
Sheet: 25 3/4 × 19 1/2 in. (65.4 × 49.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. R. Watkins, 1942
Accession Number
42.16.76
Tags
ChickensDucksWomen
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet|Félix Bracquemond|Georges Petit · 1814–1875
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school, whose dignified depictions of peasant laborers transformed how art could represent rural life. His monumental images of sowers, gleaners, and field workers elevated common people to subjects previously reserved for mythological or historical figures, making him a pivotal figure in the development ...