The Diggers
Medium
Etching on heavy wove paper; first state of four
Dimensions
plate: 9 5/16 x 13 3/16 in. (23.6 x 33.5 cm) sheet: 11 7/8 x 15 1/4 in. (30.1 x 38.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Pratt, 1957
Accession Number
57.531.18
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet|Auguste Delâtre · 1814–1875
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school, whose dignified depictions of peasant laborers transformed how art could represent rural life. His monumental images of sowers, gleaners, and field workers elevated common people to subjects previously reserved for mythological or historical figures, making him a pivotal figure in the development ...