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Date : 1841
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting (Portrait)
Area related
France
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Before achieving international success as a painter of peasant life, Millet earned his living as a portraitist. Depicted here is Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, wife of his lifelong friend Félix-Bien-aimé. The likeness contains the limited use of color and rhythmic clarity of outline typical of traditional portraiture, yet it is painted with a looseness of style that anticipates Millet's mature masterpiece, "Man with a hoe", which also hangs in this gallery.
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