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Shepherdess Knitting (La Grande Bergère)
Jean-François Millet1862
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Shepherdess Knitting (La Grande Bergère)
- Creator: Jean-François Millet
- Date Created: 1862
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “J.F. Millet”
- Print State: Only 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), 1946
- Materials & Techniques: Etching printed in brown ink on Asian wove paper
- Keywords: animals, France, genre, herders, labor, sheep, shepherds
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 321 mm x 238 mm (12.64 in. x 9.37 in.). Sheet dimensions: 368 mm x 273 mm (14.49 in. x 10.75 in.).
- Bibliography: Melot 18; Delteil 18; LeBrun 19
- Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
- Accession Number: 1946.D1.131
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