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Image: Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)

Photo Credit: photo: M. Johnston
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Peasant Digging (Bêcheur au travail)

ca. 1863
19th century
105 x 100 mm (4.1 x 3.9 in.)

Jean-François Millet, French, (1814–1875)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Woodcut with pencil study on wove paper
State: Variant of third state, or undescribed fourth state
Print impression quality: Weak
Marks: Unsigned
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342)
Bibliography: Loys Delteil 31, undescribed state; Melot 31, undescribed state; Alfred Lebrun 30.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Accession Number: 1937.D1.136.1

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agriculture*, France*, genre*, labor*, peasants*
  • agriculture - Science or art of cultivating the soil, harvesting crops, and raising livestock. W [April 1996 descriptor moved. November 1995 related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. February 1991 alternate term added.]
  • France - TGN 1000070
  • genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
  • labor - Usage in the sense of physical work
  • peasants - Use for free people who support themselves by tilling the soil, either as small landholders or hired laborers. For the social class comprised of these people, use "peasantry." For those in a condition of servitude under feudalism, owing services to a lord and commonly attached to the lord's land, use "serfs." [December 1992 descriptor added.]

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  • image Dimensions: 105 x 100 mm (4.1 x 3.9 in.)

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