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Seated Peasant (Le Briquet-Tinderbox)
Jean-François Milletca. 1848-1850
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Seated Peasant (Le Briquet-Tinderbox)
- Creator: Jean-François Millet
- Date Created: ca. 1848-1850
- Subject Keywords: peasants
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Stamped, lower left: J.F.M. stamp of Millet sale, 1875
- Object Type: Drawings, 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), 1946
- Materials & Techniques: Pencil drawing on white wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: 1875
- Bibliography: See R.L. Herbert letter Feb. 26, 1976. Earliest version of "Le Briquet" called Le Cantonnier"; large drawing c.1851 M-N 1; fig.81; 2 pastels- Reims M-N 3, fig 223, 1858; Armand Hammer 1866.
- Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
- Accession Number: 1946.D1.130
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