Shepherdess with her Flock

"Shepherdess with her Flock" is a striking example of Realism in the world of genre painting. Created by Jean-François Millet around 1863, this oil on canvas artwork vividly depicts the daily peasant life, making the ordinary people the heroes of the piece. It is a perfect representation of Millet's stylistic propensity towards depicting rural life, a subject not much explored in his contemporaries' works. Currently, the painting can be admired in person in the esteemed Musee d'Orsay in Paris.