Four Oxen Pulling a Plough

Constant Troyon1853

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Title: Four Oxen Pulling a Plough
Creator: Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865)
Date Created: 1853
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.452
Medium: Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower right, in black chalk: C. Troyon / Paris 1853 Inscribed on verso, top edge, in graphite: Samlung Prof. Adam Politzer Wient / [in another hand] Constant Troyon / Studie zum grossen Bilde in Louvre 1839 / Feldarbeit Salon label, lower right, black ink on purple: 1052 Stamp, verso, purple ink: [in double-circle] BUNDDENKMALMAN WIEN [Austrian Federal Monuments Office]
Department: Drawings
Culture: France, 19th century
Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Collection: DR - French
Accession Number: 2015.452

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