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JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET La Grande Bergère.
Etching printed in brown on cream wove paper, 1862. 317x236 mm; 121/2x93/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Marginal mat stain. A superb, richly-inked impression.
Millet (1814-1875) was the son of a peasant farmer from Normandy who overcame great odds to train as an artist in Paris during the 1830s. At the outbreak of a Paris cholera epidemic in 1849, he was compelled to move to the Barbizon countryside south of the city at the advice of fellow artist Charles Jacque (who also taught Millet etching). Throughout his career, Millet never forgot his rural upbringing and produced images of peasants as almost saintly figures. The peaceful solitude of the peasant woman in the current work is reminiscent of many of of Rembrandt's "beggar" etchings. Delteil 18; Melot 18.
