Bird's-Nesters, 1874 (oil on canvas)

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PHL2630264

Image title

Bird's-Nesters, 1874 (oil on canvas)

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Artist

Millet, Jean-Francois (1814-75) / French
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Location

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA

Medium

oil on canvas

Date

1874 AD (C19th AD)

Dimensions

73.7x92.7 cms

Image description

The scene is drawn of Millet's own childhood memories of bird hunters blinding large flocks of pigeons with torchlight and then clubbing them. Despite this grisly subject matter, the painting has an ecstatic quality and the light seems almost supernatural. Millet uses very different brushwork here, looser and softer, especially evident in the rendering of the birds. By painting each bird rather generally, rendering their shape rather than their actual characteristics, Millet communicated the vast size of this flock,

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Philadelphia Museum of Art / The William L. Elkins Collection, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

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