Maura Coughlin received her Ph.D. in art history from New York University. This article is drawn from her dissertation, The Artistic Origins of the French Peasant-Painter, Jean-François Millet: Between Normandy and Barbizon. Coughlin teaches courses on nineteenth-century art, landscape, and women artists at the Massachusetts College of Art and Tufts University.

Email the author at mauracoughlin@rcn.com.

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