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Solitude

1853
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875)
Millet evokes feelings of isolation and loneliness with the bleak emptiness of this broad, snow-filled meadow. Like other contemporary artists, Millet discovered counterparts for human emotions and conditions within the landscape genre.

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