Identifier: frick-31072002485037 (find matches)
Title: Deluxe illustrated catalogue of the very valuable modern paintings, sculpture and other art property collected by the late Theron R. Butler, Esq (electronic resource)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924
Subjects: Theron R. Butler
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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FRENCH (1814-1875) LABORER RESTING Beside the furrow which he has been painfully turning, a young peasantleans on his clumsy, long-handled wooden spade. His attitude is expressivof great bodily weariness, and to ease his galled feet he has kicked off 01 yof his wooden sabots, resting his weight entirely upon the other leg. Hisclothes consist of a pair of blue trousers and a dirty cotton shirt, open at theneck. His head is bare, and covered with a shock of rough hair, his mouthopen, his chin resting on his hands. His face is devoid of expression, his intel-ligence hardly rises above that of the beasts with whom his life is spent, soentirely does the struggle for mere existence dull all other feeling. Theparched earth extends in the sunlight past other workers to some lowlycottages beside a wood, showing dimly through the dusty haze of asweltering day. Signed at the left, J. F. Millet. Height, 16 inches; width, 13 inches. Purchased from Samuel P. Avery, 1882.
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No. 32A SHEPHERDESS BY JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET No. 32 JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET FRENCH (1814-1875) A SHEPHERDESS An intimate study of the life of a young peasant girl, whose time fromdawn to dark is passed in watching sheep, who looks forward to nothingbetter, save, perhaps, to becoming the wife of some peasant and to exchangethe exclusion of the fields for that of a cottage. In the shadow of a clumpof bushes she sits, her staff resting on the stones beside her. She wears arough dress of coarse material, covered with a blue apron, and her hair is con-fined in a close-fitting red cap. With her hands folded in her lap, and herlips slightly parted, she appears to be lost in a day-dream, leaving the care ofher charges to her faithful dog, a rough, shaggy creature, who watches theflock from a slight eminence near at hand. Signed at the right, J. F. Millet. Hrigid, 15% inches; mdlh, \\% inches. Purchased from Samuel P. Avery, Sr., 1880.

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