Haystacks: Autumn Poster Print - Jean-François Millet Size:18″×24″ produced this empathetic work in

produced this empathetic work in New York at a time when caricatured representations of African Americans were the norm

Vermont 1823–1903 New York)

Origin: New York

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who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush

Haystacks: Autumn Poster Print - Jean-François Millet Size:18″×24″ produced this empathetic work inAbout the art: Title: Haystacks: Autumn Artist: Jean Franois Millet (French, Gruchy 18141875 Barbizon) Date: ca. 1874 This picture is from a series depicting the four seasons commissioned in 1868 by the industrialist Frdric Hartmann. Millet worked on the paintings intermittently for the next seven years. In Autumn, with the harvest finished, the gleaners have departed and the sheep are left to graze. Beyond the haystacks lie the plain of Chailly and