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First Steps, after Millet

First Steps, after Millet





Original artist : Jean-François Millet

Date : 1890

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Gift of Georges N. and Helen M. Richard (1964)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Van Gogh - Gauguin
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture
First Floor
Item 15 on 21
French Painting
Painting

Area related
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (France)
Site related :
Saint-Rémy (May 1889 - May 1890)


Description   

In fall and winter 1889-1890, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies improvisations or translations akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. For this work, Van Gogh squared up a photograph of Millet First Steps, which he then transferred to the canvas.
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