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Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)
Jean-François Millet1863
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)
- Creator: Jean-François Millet
- Date Created: 1863
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned
- Print State: Undescribed third state
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
- Materials & Techniques: Woodcut and brown wash on wove paper
- Keywords: agriculture, France, genre, labor, peasants, print states
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Working proof possibly for second state, without hat lower left
- Dimensions: Image dimensions: 105 mm x 72 mm (4.13 in. x 2.83 in.). Sheet dimensions: 229 mm x 130 mm (9.02 in. x 5.12 in.).
- Bibliography: Melot 31; Delteil 31; LeBrun 30
- Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
- Accession Number: 1937.D1.137
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