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The picture's prosaic terrain and precise technique reveal the young artist's early adherence to Pre-Raphaelite ideals

the residents of which also enjoyed or imagined retreats to country estates

Date: 1879

Haystacks: Autumn Poster Print - Jean-François Millet 1600 " averred one of theAbout 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