Women Carrying Faggots
ca. 1858
Medium
Charcoal heightened with white gouache, charcoal border, on heavy laid gray-blue paper
Dimensions
13 1/2 × 10 7/8 in. (34.3 × 27.6 cm) Framed: 22 5/8 in. × 19 7/8 in. × 1 3/8 in. (57.5 × 50.5 × 3.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.671
Tags
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 ...