Artwork

Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest

Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest, by Jean François Millet, oil, 1848
Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest, by Jean François Millet, oil, 1848

Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest is an oil painting by the Realist artist Jean François Millet. It dates from 1848 and is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Artist & collection

Portrait of Jean François Millet

Artist

Jean François Millet

Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: ; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.