Retreat from the Storm
Jean-François Millet
ca. 1846
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/4 x 15 in. (46.4 x 38.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarina Tang and Peter M. Wood, 2002
Accession Number
2002.613
Tags
GirlsWomenStorms
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet · 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 ...