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Image: Peasant with Wheelbarrow

Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook
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Peasant with Wheelbarrow

ca. 1855-1865
19th century
111 x 137 mm (4.4 x 5.4 in.)

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

Object Type: drawing
Medium and Support: Brush drawing in faded sepia on laid paper mounted down on heavyweight paper
Marks: Millet sale stamp, lower right: “J.F.M.”
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Brooklyn Museum
Bibliography: Robert L. Herbert letter 2/26/1976: “Late 1850s–early 60s; seems not to be related to any one composition”; see “Le Matin du Village” oil painting and “Le Paysan rentrant du fumier” etching (D. 11), 1855.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Accession Number: 1937.D1.143

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agriculture*, 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.]
  • 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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  • sheet Dimensions: 111 x 137 mm (4.4 x 5.4 in.)

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