Detail of Woman with a Rake by Millet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2011

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)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Stephen C. Clark, 1938

Accession Number: 38.75

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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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