The Baker's Cart 1656 Jean Michelin French Peasants and popular life in rural settings were common subjects in seventeenth-century painting, though Michelin situates his figures—which include a baker and his cart, an old woman offering medicinal eau-de-vie, and a boy with a basket—in an urban context. Little is known about Michelin, whose subjects relate to the more famous brothers Le Nain, but this painting has served as a fixed point in defining his oeuvre since his signature and a date were discovered during a cleaning of this canvas in the late The Baker's Cart 437082

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