Calling the cows home

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1872
Height:
94.6 cm  (37 1/4 in.)
Width:
64.8 cm  (25 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 50.151]

Description

Millet mentioned this painting in a letter of August 1872 to his friend and biographer, Alfred Sensier: "I've groaned more than I've worked, since I've done hardly anything but a sketch. You know the subject, a cowherd sounding his horn to collect his cattle at the end of the day." Millet had treated this subject in a charcoal drawing of 1857–58 and a pastel of 1866.

Iconclass

47I221
herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown horn [5177]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3822