Jean-François Millet
The Gleaners
About this artwork
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artist:Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) French
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title:The Gleaners
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date created:1856
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materials:Etching on paper
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measurements:platmark: 19 x 25.4 cm support: 31.2 x 38 cm
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credit line:The Henry and Sula Walton collection: bequeathed 2012
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accession number:P 3145.21
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Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet
Born into a prosperous peasant family, Millet enjoyed a good education before being apprenticed to a painter in Cherbourg in 1833. In 1837 he was sent to Paris, and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as the pupil of the famous history painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). Dissatisfied with academic...