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.
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