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The Sheepshearer
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The Sheepshearer

Jean-François Millet | Henry Linton

19th century

Medium

Woodcut

Tags

MenWomenSheep

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1925

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-François Millet

1814–1875 • France

French painter, draftsman, and drafter, famous primarily for his images of peasants. Although he was a prominent member of the Barbizon School, he concentrated on genre scenes rather than landscapes, and while his works are classical in composition, they are treated with Realist details. His fluctuating critical legacy over the years relects the shifting aesthetic tastes of the times. Comment on works: landscape; figure painter

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