Retreat from the Storm, ca. 1846, Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 15 in. (46.4 x 38.1 cm), Paintings, Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon), The impending storm poses a real threat to this woman and her child, whose subsistence depends on the stray sticks of firewood they have gathered. Throughout the 1840s the number of homeless peasants increased dramatically in France, reaching a crisis in the recession of 1847 and contributing to the fall of King Louis-Philippe in the 1848 revolution
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Retreat, Storm, ca, 1846, Oil, canvas, 18 1/4 x 15, 46.4 38.1 cm, Paintings, Jean-François Millet, French, Gruchy, 1814–1875, Barbizon, impending, storm, poses, real threat, woman, child, subsistence depends, stray sticks, firewood, gathered, 1840s, number, homeless peasants, increased, dramatically, France, reaching, crisis, recession, 1847, contributing, fall, King Louis-Philippe, 1848 revolution
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