Calling Home The Cows by Jean-François Millet was created in 1866. The painting is in National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. The size of the work is 55,9 x 41,3 cm and is made as an pastel and conté crayon on paper.
About the Artist: French artist Jean-François Millet was born in Gruchy, Gréville-Hague. He was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. In 1833 his father sent him to Cherbourg to study with a portrait painter named Bon Du Mouchel. By 1835 he was studying with Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville, a pupil of Baron Gros, in Cherbourg… Read more
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