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Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)
Jean-François Milletca. 1863
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)
- Creator: Jean-François Millet
- Date Created: ca. 1863
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned
- Print State: Variant of third state, or undescribed fourth 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 with pencil study of a peasant lamp at right on wove paper
- Keywords: agriculture, France, genre, labor, peasants
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Image dimensions: 105 mm x 100 mm (4.13 in. x 3.94 in.). Sheet dimensions: 143 mm x 139 mm (5.63 in. x 5.47 in.).
- Bibliography: Melot 31 undescribed state; Delteil 31, undescribed state; LeBrun 30
- Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
- Accession Number: 1937.D1.136.1
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