Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysan avec brouette (Peasant with a Wheelbarrow) 1848–1852 Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 45.4 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Millet was a leading member of the Barbizon School of painters, which rose to prominence around 1850. Often working…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) 1889 Oil on canvas, 30 x 37-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Van Gogh‘s spirituality and intense identification with the forces of nature transformed his views of the landscape into…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des betteraves (The Beet Harvest) 1881 Gouache over graphite [?] on linen, 25.72 x 37.78 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro was an avowed anarchist who strongly opposed the existing social and…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les meules de foin (The Haystacks) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the 1880s, Paul Gauguin made several extended trips to Brittany in western France, attracted by the region’s remoteness and…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace 1885 Oil on canvas, 44.1 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work was made in Nuenen in late spring 1885, just after Van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Fille portant de l’eau (Girl carrying Water) c.1855–1860 Oil on canvas, 41 x 33 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le matin (Morning) s.d. Wood engraving on chine collé, 15 x 22 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From the series, “Four Times of the Day” (1830–1875). Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Matin, d’après Millet 1890 Hermitage…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Matin, d’après Millet (Morning, Going to Work, after Millet) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le matin s.d. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysannes aux broussailles (Peasant Women with Brushwood) c.1852 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 29.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Millet devoted his talent to the depiction of scenes from peasant life, and this is a typical example of his…