Club foot (furniture) since. Pad feet can still be seen on some classical furniture. Club foot (furniture) A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. It is also known by the alternative names pad foot and Dutch foot, the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on cabriole legs during the 18th century. They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas. Pad feet were first seen in the
Shepherdess Seated on a Rock of Scotland. According to that gallery, "Millet’s paintings of shepherdesses were greatly admired, and inspired Vincent van Gogh to pay homage to Millet in his own work." The work is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Gallery 802. Shepherdess Seated on a Rock Shepherdess Seated on a Rock or The Knitter or Shepherdess Knitting is an 1856 oil on wood painting by Jean-François Millet. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. Millet was a leader of the Barbizon school, which emphasized realism, and is noted for his scenes of