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

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Oct 29 2019 - May 10 2020

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.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

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