Woman with a Rake

Jean-Francois Millet

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Woman with a Rake
Artist:Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon)
Date:probably 1856–57
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:15 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. (39.7 x 34.3 cm)


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.