Jean-François Millet
A Shepherdess
About this artwork
This spirited preparatory drawing is associated with a composition of 1856 called A Shepherdess Knitting. There are two versions, one in the Cincinnati Art Museum and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Millet’s paintings of shepherdesses were greatly admired, and inspired Vincent van Gogh to pay homage to Millet in his own work.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) French
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title:A Shepherdess
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Black chalk with touches of blue chalk on pale buff paper
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measurements:22.80 x 15.10 cm
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credit line:Mr A.E. Anderson Gift 1929
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accession number:D 3729
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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...
