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Jean-François Millet — Woman Churning Butter

Jean-François Millet

Woman Churning Butter

1855

Focused on traditional domestic skills, this etching elevates the laborious process of butter-making into an image of rustic authenticity and feminine industriousness.

Medium
etching

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Jean-François Millet, Woman Churning Butter, 1855

Focused on traditional domestic skills, this etching elevates the laborious process of butter-making into an image of rustic authenticity and feminine industriousness.

Medium
etching
Year
1855
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Etching, Labor, Rural, Figurative

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