2630264 Bird\'s-Nesters, 1874 (oil on canvas) by Millet, Jean-Francois (1814-75); 73.7x92.7 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA; (add.info.: The scene is drawn of Millet\'s own childhood memories of bird hunters blinding large flocks of pigeons with torchlight and then clubbing them. Despite this grisly subject matter, the painting has an ecstatic quality and the light seems almost supernatural. Millet uses very different brushwork here, looser and softer, especially evident in the rendering of the birds. By painting each bird rather generally, rendering their shape rather than their actual characteristics, Millet communicated the vast size of this flock,); 穢 Philadelphia Museum of Art ; The William L. Elkins Collection, 1924.