Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)

Jean-François Millet1863

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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