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Woman Feeding Chickens

Jean-François Millet · 1846-48

Palette

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Artist

Jean-François Millet

Date

1846-48

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

45.8 × 38.2 cm (18 1/4 × 15 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 49.6 × 5.8 cm (22 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)

Place

France

Period

Barbizon School · 19th century

Themes

Birds · Work and rural life

Main colour

Brown · lightness 32, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, Henry Field Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules