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Image: Peasant with a Wheelbarrow (Le Paysan Rentrant du Fermier)

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Peasant with a Wheelbarrow (Le Paysan Rentrant du Fermier)

ca. 1857-1858
19th century
166 x 134 mm (6.5 x 5.3 in.)

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

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching printed in brown ink on chine collé
State: First of four states
Print impression quality: Excellent, with slight plate tone
Marks: Signed in plate, lower right: “J.F. Millet”; inscribed in unknown hand in lower margin: “Millet, 1855, First state, before the address of Delâtre. extremely rare. LeBrun No. 12”
Bibliography: Loys Delteil 11; Melot 11; Alfred Lebrun 12.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Accession Number: 1937.D1.119

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agriculture*, France*, genre*, labor*, peasants*, wheelbarrows*
  • 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.]
  • wheelbarrows - Hand-operated utility vehicles usually fitted with a shallow, open receptacle, a wheel or wheels in front, and two unwheeled supports in back and lifted and pushed using two horizontal shafts extending outward from the rear.

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  • plate Dimensions: 166 x 134 mm (6.5 x 5.3 in.)

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