Le Paysan Rentrant du Fumier (Man with Wheelbarrow)
Jean-François Millet, French, 1814 - 1875
1855; later impression
Etching on japan paper
Plate: 6 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (16.5 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (26 × 19.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.412
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in plate, lower right: J. F. Millet
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustre, vol. 1, no. 11.
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