Shepherdess with her Flock

Shepherdess with her Flock is an 1864 oil on canvas painting by Jean-François Millet, now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

Shepherdess with her Flock (1864) by Jean-François Millet

History

Millet expressed a desire to paint a work showing a shepherdess with her flock as early as 1862. As his friend Alfred Sensier related, this theme "obsessed the artist's mind" until he exhibited the work at the Paris Salon of 1864, where it was a great success, called a "refined canvas" by some and a "masterpiece" by others. It was particularly estemed by the middle-classes in Paris, who preferred idealised paintings of rural life to caring about the hard life of real peasants.[1]

References
  1. "Jean-François Millet, Pastorella con il suo gregge". Museo d'Orsay. 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
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