Woman With A Rake — Jean François Millet The Elder

Woman with a Rake


jean françois millet the elder (1642 - 1679)

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Millet first treated this subject in a woodcut, one of ten in the series Labors of the Fields that were published in a popular periodical in 1853. The art dealer Martinet, in whose gallery such avant-garde artists as Courbet and Manet exhibited, included this painting in a show in 1860.