Woman with a Rake

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Jean-François Millet’s Woman with a Rake gives a field worker a strong, upright presence. She stands at the right with one arm raised to the rake’s shaft, her blue-gray dress and darker waist forming broad, substantial shapes. Fields and grazing animals extend to the left, allowing the figure’s close presence to meet the quieter distances of the agricultural landscape.

Painted in oil on canvas, probably in 1856–57, the work develops a subject Millet had already explored in a woodcut. Here color and the weight of painted forms give the woman an immediate physical solidity. Her held posture interrupts the rhythm of labor without removing her from it; the rake remains an essential companion, making the pause inseparable from the work and land around her.