Shepherdess with her Flock
Shepherdess with her Flock is a circa 1863 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-François Millet, now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
History[edit]
Millet expressed a desire to paint a work showing a shepherdess with her flock as early as 1862. As his friend Alfred Sensier related, this theme "obsessed the artist's mind" until he exhibited the work at the Paris Salon of 1864, where it was a great success, called a "refined canvas" by some and a "masterpiece" by others. It was particularly esteemed by the middle-classes in Paris, who preferred idealised paintings of rural life to caring about the hard life of real peasants.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jean-François Millet, Shepherdess with her Flock". Museo d'Orsay. 2006. Archived from the original on April 8, 2015.
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