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Jean-François Millet (1814-1875).
Liberty, probably 1848.
Black chalk and pastel; 472 x 317 mm
Collection of Muriel Butkin
[cat. no. 35]
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Jean-François Millet
Liberty
Liberty relates to Jean-François Millet's entrance into the 1848 competition for an official painted figure representing the second French Republic. Millet did not win the competition and his painted Republic no longer exists, but this representation of a related concept-Liberty-was inspired by his contest participation. He also drew allegories of the other two fundamental concepts in French Republicanism: Equality and Fraternity. The Butkin collection includes another image of Liberty made several years later by Gustave Doré. Like Millet's image, Doré's was conceived during a moment when questions of liberty were made crucial because of civil unrest and reprisal (the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and ensuing Paris Commune).
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