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Jean François Millet: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures, and a Portrait of the Painter, With Introduction and Interpretation

by Estelle May Hurll

2018-11-13 20:01:10

In making a selection of Millet's pictures, devoted as they are to the single theme of French peasant life, variety of subject can be obtained only by showing as many phases of that life as possible. Our illustrations therefore represent both men and ... Read more
In making a selection of Millet's pictures, devoted as they are to the single theme of French peasant life, variety of subject can be obtained only by showing as many phases of that life as possible. Our illustrations therefore represent both men and women working separately in the tasks peculiar to each, and working together in the labors shared between them. There are in addition a few pictures of child life. The selections include a study of the field, the dooryard, and the home interior, and range from the happiest to the most sombre subjects. They show also considerable variety in artistic motive and composition, and taken together fairly represent the scope of Millet's work. Less

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File size814.902 KB
Print pages120
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781330057650,
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Estelle May Hurll
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Estelle May Hurll (1863–1924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century. Hurll was born 25 July 1863 in New Bedford, Massachuset...

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