71, south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
71 south audley street, london
Lautenbach - Collégiale Saint Gangolph
71, south audley st., london
71, south audley st., london
71, south audley st., london
71, south audley st., london
Thuret - Saint-Bénilde
199400Tamwortharea0001
Woman's work
Volvic - Saint-Priest
Protected by dogs on drugs
End of the Trail?
Cole and his pack
Jake and Idaho
IMG_3637
IMG_3663
IMG_3664
Onward!
100_0554
IMG_3671
IMG_3672
100_0565
100_0566
IMG_3724
IMG_3725
IMG_3726
IMG_3727
4, st.james square, westminster
Location
Keywords
Authorizations, license
-
Visible by: Everyone -
All rights reserved
-
368 visits
Shepherd Tending his Flock by Millet in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
Shepherd Tending His Flock
The son of farmers, Millet understood both the reassuring cycle of the seasons and the frightening prospect of ruin at nature’s whim. From the late 1840s, he dedicated his career to a simultaneously heroic and bleak depiction of the peasants of Barbizon, the farming community outside Paris where he lived. Millet’s uncompromising representation of the French peasantry earned him the scorn of conservative critics. In this painting, Millet endows the shepherd with an imposing monumentality, bringing him to the foreground of the image, where he looms above the horizon line. Yet the figure hunches over his staff, his nearly featureless face gape-mouthed, perhaps with exhaustion or pain. And while Millet’s shepherd tends a large flock, the parched yellow and brown grass in the foreground has been interpreted as a suggestion of future scarcity. Other scholars have offered religious readings of the image, likening the shepherd to Christ.
Artist: Jean-François Millet, French, 1814-1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Place Made: Europe
Dates: early 1860s
Dimensions: 32 3/16 x 39 9/16 in. (81.8 x 100.5 cm) Frame: 41 1/2 x 49 in. (105.4 x 124.5 cm)
Signature: Signed lower right: "J. F. Millet"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, West, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 21.31
Credit Line: Bequest of William H. Herriman
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/11703/Sheph...
The son of farmers, Millet understood both the reassuring cycle of the seasons and the frightening prospect of ruin at nature’s whim. From the late 1840s, he dedicated his career to a simultaneously heroic and bleak depiction of the peasants of Barbizon, the farming community outside Paris where he lived. Millet’s uncompromising representation of the French peasantry earned him the scorn of conservative critics. In this painting, Millet endows the shepherd with an imposing monumentality, bringing him to the foreground of the image, where he looms above the horizon line. Yet the figure hunches over his staff, his nearly featureless face gape-mouthed, perhaps with exhaustion or pain. And while Millet’s shepherd tends a large flock, the parched yellow and brown grass in the foreground has been interpreted as a suggestion of future scarcity. Other scholars have offered religious readings of the image, likening the shepherd to Christ.
Artist: Jean-François Millet, French, 1814-1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Place Made: Europe
Dates: early 1860s
Dimensions: 32 3/16 x 39 9/16 in. (81.8 x 100.5 cm) Frame: 41 1/2 x 49 in. (105.4 x 124.5 cm)
Signature: Signed lower right: "J. F. Millet"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, West, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 21.31
Credit Line: Bequest of William H. Herriman
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/11703/Sheph...
- Keyboard shortcuts:
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest comments - Subscribe to the comment feeds of this photo
- ipernity © 2007-2024
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter
Sign-in to write a comment.