Who painted “Shepherdess with her Flock”?

“Shepherdess with her Flock” was painted by Jean-François Millet in 1863. Where to see it: Musée d'Orsay.

What to look for

Jean-François Millet: peasants at work in the fields, heavy, dignified figures bent over the earth in soft evening light.

Jean-François Millet (4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Wikipedia

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“The Angelus”, 1858
“The Gleaners”, 1857
“Death and the Woodcutter”, 1859
“The Potato Harvest”, 1855
“Peasant Women with Brushwood”, 1852
“The Sower”, 1850
“The Winnower”, 1848
“Starry Night”, 1857