Jean-François Millet, 1856 - Shepherdess Seated on a Rock - fine art print

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In 1856 the artist Jean-François Millet created the masterpiece. The beyond 160 year-old original version measures the size: 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 in (35,9 x 28,3 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on wood. What is more, the artpiece is part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983 (license: public domain). Additionally, the artpiece has the creditline: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983. What is more, the alignment is in portrait format with a ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Jean-François Millet was a painter from France, whose artistic style was mainly Realism. The artist lived for 61 years, born in 1814 and passed away in 1875 in Barbizon.

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For every fine art print we offer a range of different sizes and materials. You can choose your your favorite size and material among the following options:

• Canvas: A printed canvas, not to be mistaken with an artwork painted on a canvas, is a digital copy printed directly on canvas. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which implies that it is easy to hang your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. A canvas print is suited for all types of walls.
• Poster on canvas material: A poster is a printed sheet of canvas with a slight surface structure. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of approximately 2-6cm round about the print, which facilitates the framing with a custom frame.
• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): An Aluminium Dibond print is a material with an impressive depth. The Aluminium Dibond Print is your best start to art replicas with aluminum. The bright parts of the work of art shimmer with a silky gloss, however without the glow. The direct print on Aluminum Dibond is one of the most demanded entry-level products and is a truly stylish way to display art, as it puts the viewer’s attention on the artwork.
• The glossy acrylic glass print: A glossy print on acrylic glass, which is often described as a print on plexiglass, makes the original into brilliant décor. Your own copy of the artwork will be manufactured thanks to state-of-the-art UV direct printing machines.

Important legal note: We try all that we can to depict our art products as clearly as we can and to exhibit them visually on the different product detail pages. Please bear in mind that some pigments of the print products and the printing can vary somehwat from the image on your screen. Depending on your settings of your screen and the condition of the surface, color pigments might not be printed one hundret percent realistically. Bearing in mind that all fine art prints are processed and printed by hand, there might as well be slight differences in the motif's size and exact position.

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What does the original description of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art write about this work of art from the painter Jean-François Millet? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Millet had almost finished a painting of the same subject in 1856 (Cincinnati Art Museum), when the young American artist Edward Wheelwright admired it in his studio and asked to buy it. As that work was promised to a patron, Millet agreed to make a replica. Wheelwright recalled that Millet took the second version to the same state of completion as the original, and then "worked on the two pictures alternatively," advancing on one, then turning to the other, and "in this way making both . . . better than either would have been without the rivalry." Wheelwright selected the one now in Cincinnati.