Postcard Millet - Gleaners

IC002991
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Themes
Country and outdoor scenes, Made in France
Artist
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)
Art movements
Realism, Barbizon School
Reference
IC002991
EAN
3336727143575
Matière de l'article
Paper
Model dimensions
10cm x 15cm
Package Dimensions
10cm x 15cm
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d'Orsay

The work and its artist

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

Millet is a French painter of the 19th century, he is close to the realist movement initiated by Courbet. Known as the painter of the countryside and the farmers, he attached a specific importance to the workers and the underdogs. Millet's paintings are poetics and glorify a peasant aesthetic, as can be seen in paintings such as "le repos des Faneurs" (the resting of the tedders) (1848), Les Glaneuses (the Gleaners) (1857), la Tondeuse de moutons (the Sheep Shearer) (1861), ... At the end of his life, Millet further explored the play of light and contrasts. This work was a source of inspiration for the future Impressionists who reinterpreted some of his works, as Vincent Van Gogh did for example.
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