Woman with a Rake
1856
40.0 x 34.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
About this artwork
- Title: Woman with a Rake
- Artist: jean françois millet the elder
- Year: 1856
- Original dimensions: 40.0 x 34.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Color palette: Earthy
- Main color: Clay