The Seamstress (La Couseuse)
Jean-François Millet · c. 1855 · etching on laid paper
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About this picture
The Seamstress (La Couseuse) is a public-domain illustration by Jean-François Millet, dated c. 1855. Etching on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Seamstress (La Couseuse)” (c. 1855) makes rural labor the subject. Millet’s figures are large and grave, usually bent to the work in front of them.
About the artist
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) painted peasants and rural labor around Barbizon. The figures are large and grave, and the work itself is the subject.
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