print
- Museum number
- 1901,1015.44
- Title
- Object: Le Semeur (The Sower)
- Description
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Man sowing field, another figure seen with oxen beyond to left, ploughing. 1851
Crayon lithograph
- Production date
- 1851
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 millimetres
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Width: 160 millimetres (max.)
- Curator's comments
- Commissioned by Alfred Lebrun for 'L'Artiste', but was never published in the journal. For more information, see the entry for the original stone, 1957,0620.2. This is one of the impressions printed after Millet's death by the then owner of the stone, the New York dealer Frederick Keppel. The stone is in the BM's collection, 1957,0620.2
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec, cat. no.10
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1015.44
