Haystacks: Autumn, ca. 1874, Oil on canvas, 33 1/2 x 43 3/8 in. (85. 1 x 110. 2 cm), Paintings, Jean-Francois Millet (French, Gruchy 1814?1875 Barbizon), This picture is from a series depicting the four seasons commissioned in 1868 by the industrialist Frederic Hartmann. Millet worked on the paintings intermittently for the next seven years. In Autumn, with the harvest finished, the gleaners have departed and the sheep are left to graze