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TitleWoman Baking Bread

Creator nameMillet, Jean-François

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1852–1856

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack and white chalk and brown ink on faded blue laid paper

Dimensions18 3/8 x 16 5/8 in. (46.6 x 42.2 cm)

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachussetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/293558

Accession number1993.58

SubjectsWorking class women in artRealism in artBarbizon schoolDrawing, French--19th century

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Labor

Sean Wehle

Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium

~The discourses spun in the earliest lectures at the French Academy relocated art-making’s labor onto an intellectual plane. Eighteenth-century amateurs prized drawings as objects of expression; the medium’s inclusion in the Salon, and its resulting...

Author

Sean Wehle

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.224-229

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00039.021

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16401&redirecttoanchor=22862

Chapter subject tags:Labor in artCommerce in artArt--ReproductionDrawing--Technique

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