• Shepherdess and Her Flock (detail), about 1864-65, Jean-François Millet, pastel with black chalk and touches of black ink on tan paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum

    Shepherdess and Her Flock (detail), about 1864-65, Jean-François Millet, pastel with black chalk and touches of black ink on tan paper. The J. Paul Getty Museum

Exhibition

Peasants in Pastel: Jean-François Millet and the Pastel Revival

29 Oct 2019 – 10 May 2020

Regular hours

Tuesday
10:00 – 17:30
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:30
Thursday
10:00 – 17:30
Friday
10:00 – 17:30
Saturday
10:00 – 21:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:30

Cost of entry

FREE

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Long associated with aristocratic portraiture, pastel had fallen out of fashion by the mid-nineteenth century, when Jean-François Millet turned the powdery medium to a quite different purpose: scenes of contemporary peasant life. This installation presents a selection of pastels by Millet and his followers, addressing the relationship between rural labor and urban collecting and encouraging visitors to consider how an artist’s chosen medium affects our understanding of his or her subject matter.

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Jean-François Millet

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