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Jean-François Millet — Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap

Jean-François Millet

Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap

1855

Part of a groundbreaking series that dignified agricultural work, this etching captures the cyclical nature of farm labor with the artist's characteristic blend of realism and poetic sensibility.

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Jean-François Millet, Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap, 1855

Part of a groundbreaking series that dignified agricultural work, this etching captures the cyclical nature of farm labor with the artist's characteristic blend of realism and poetic sensibility.

Medium
etching
Year
1855
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Etching, Labor, Dark Tones, Realism, Rural, Figurative, Black and White

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