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The Little Milkmaid
Théodule Ribot (French, 1823–1891)
c. 1865
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 46.3 x 38.3 cm (18 1/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Members of Ribot's family are the likely models for many of his figure compositions, in which the subjects engage in humble activities, such as preparing meals or gathering in groups to read to each other.