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Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching

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Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching
Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching 19th Century
This etching by Jean--Francois Millet is titled "Les Glaesus" 1855-56, printed on thin India paper gray/brown ink and depicts two peasants during
the potato harvest in Barbizon, with a view of the local church tower in the background.
Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in France. He
was very familiar with farming life because he lived in a farming community in a farming
community, and as the eldest son, he had to help his father with the farm-work. It is
based on a painting he did in 1857 entitled L’Angelus and displayed at the Musee
d’Orsay in Paris. The painting was commissioned by an American art collector in
Boston, but the purchaser never came to collect it, so in 1859 Millet added a steeple
and changed the title of the work from Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus. The
painting finally went on display to the public in 1865. The etching itself is printed in
gray / brown ink on thin India paper and signed in the plate on the lower right. It is
exquisite and protected by tissue guard on top of the etching. The overall size is 12 1/4
x 15 in. wide and the sight size is 8 3/16 x 9 3/4 in. wide.
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