Le Semeur (The Sower)
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875
1851; print after 1879
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 7 3/8 × 6 1/4 in. (18.7 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (27.6 × 22.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip Hofer
PR.952.33
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
None.
Course History
WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015
ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
19th Century French Prints, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 3-23, 1973.
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1981-January 1982.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 1992-January 29, 1993.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1987.
Visions of Modernity: Nineteenth-Century European Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 21, 1998.
Publication History
James O. Freedman, Presidential Range, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, October 1991, p.12
Provenance
Collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1952.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustre, vol. 1, no. 22.
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