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Autumn Leaves (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. It was described by the critic John Ruskin as the first instance of a perfectly painted twilight. Millais’s wife Effie wrote that he had intended to create a picture that was full of beauty and without a subject.The picture depicts four girls in the twilight collecting and raking together fallen leaves in a garden.
