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Jean-François Millet — The Maternal Precaution

Jean-François Millet

The Maternal Precaution

1860

Employing the same hybrid photographic-printmaking process as its companion piece, this version explores subtle variations in tone and composition while maintaining the intimate subject matter.

Medium
cliché-verre

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Jean-François Millet, The Maternal Precaution, 1860

Employing the same hybrid photographic-printmaking process as its companion piece, this version explores subtle variations in tone and composition while maintaining the intimate subject matter.

Medium
cliché-verre
Year
1860
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Print, Intimate, Cliche-Verre, Monochrome, French, Mother and Child, 19th Century, Domestic, Tender, Realism, Nurturing, Figurative

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