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Jean-François Millet — The Diggers

Jean-François Millet

The Diggers

1855

Among the most powerful images in the artist's oeuvre, this etching presents backbreaking agricultural labor as both harsh reality and noble calling.

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Jean-François Millet, The Diggers, 1855

Among the most powerful images in the artist's oeuvre, this etching presents backbreaking agricultural labor as both harsh reality and noble calling.

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

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Pastoral, Rural Labor, Monochrome, French, Figures, 19th Century, Etching, Landscape, Naturalism, Labor, Social Commentary, Realism, Rural, Diggers

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