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The Sheepshearers by Jean-François Millet

    The Sheepshearers by Jean-François Millet

    The Sheepshearers by Jean-François Millet was created in 1857. The painting is in Art Institute of Chicago. The size of the work is 41,2 x 28,5 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.

    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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