The Sheepfold, Moonlight

ca. 1858-1860

33 cm 22.8 cm

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Perhaps encouraged by his developing friendship with Théodore Rousseau, Millet began to concentrate more on landscape settings in the mid-1850s. This painting represents a nocturnal scene on the plain that extended outside the artist's studio between the villages of Barbizon a...

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Emile Gavet, Paris; sold at Hotel Drouot, paris, June 11-12, 1875, no. 81; bought by Durand; William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1884; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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