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Philatelic document - Jean-François Millet

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5.41

Description

Gleaners, Jean-François Millet 1814-1875 Their backs are hunched, they look down at the ground, searching for ears of corn that the harvesters may have forgotten. Behind them, large haystacks, hay piled high, a certain image of abundance, guarded by a steward on horseback, but the focus remains on these women, these gleaners, whose bodies are sculpted by the light of the setting sun. Des glaneuses, which Jean-François Millet painted in 1857 before presenting it at the Salon, received a lukewarm critical reception. He was accused of mythologizing poverty and the rural proletariat, and of using pictorial realism for political ends. His early career, between the Cotentin region and Paris, had been uncertain, oscillating between portraiture and classical nudes inspired by eighteenth-century art, whose paintings he had studied at the Louvre. Barbizon, where he helped establish the famous school of the same name, led him to study landscapes, rural scenes and, in particular, agricultural trades. With his Glaneuses, Millet continues to evoke an unchanging world, the work of the fields, the nobility of daily tasks, using light, its reflections and its expressive power to both individualize and enlarge the characters. In this, he prefigures the movements and artists who would see him as a master, from Van Gogh to the Impressionists, Dalí and Edward Hopper. In each case, it is the role of light against the almost traditional formal qualities of the composition that lends a modernity to the whole, shrouding it in an austere calm. The painting was acquired by Madame Pommery, of the famous Champagne house, before being donated to the French state. It was exhibited at the Louvre until 1986, and since then at the Musée d'Orsay. Antoine Vigne

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Timbre-poste (taille-douce), document philatélique : création et gravure Sarah Lazarevic d'après photos : timbre © Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France/Bridgeman Images, document philatélique : portrait J.F Millet réalisé par Nadar, © La Collection. Cachet d’oblitération : mise en page Sarah Lazarevic Texte : Antoine Vigne.

Information

Commercialisation start date

January 20, 2025

Commercialisation end date

January 31, 2026

Adherence type

None

Printing technique

Intaglio

Number per sheet

1

Permanent value

No

Face value

-

Philatelic charter family

(not applicable)

Official release date

January 20, 2025

Stamp format

21 x 29,7 cm

author

-

Product number

2125551