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. Inscribed in pencil, lower left: “Déssiné & Gravé par J.F. Millet (4 épreuves) RRR”
Print State: Undescribed state, between Melot’s first and second states
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 hand at lower left (on verso: fragment of study of a child’s head in red crayon; head of a dog in pencil, lower right; “X”s in green paint across center) 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: 102 mm x 84 mm (4.02 in. x 3.31 in.). Sheet dimensions: 194 mm x 158 mm (7.64 in. x 6.22 in.).
Bibliography: Melot 31, undescribed state; Delteil 31; LeBrun 30
Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
Accession Number: 1937.D1.136.2

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