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Artist:Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon)
Date:ca. 1872
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:37 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (94.6 x 64.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Arthur Whitney, 1950
Millet mentioned this painting in a letter of August 1872 to his friend and biographer, Alfred Sensier: "I've groaned more than I've worked, since I've done hardly anything but a sketch. You know the subject, a cowherd sounding his horn to collect his cattle at the end of the day." Millet had treated this subject in a charcoal drawing of 1857–58 and a pastel of 1866.
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