The Sower
Medium
Lithograph on thin laid paper; second (final) state; 1879 or later; posthumous impression
Dimensions
image: 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in. (19.4 x 13.3 cm) sheet: 11 x 7 7/8 in. (27.9 x 20 cm) frame: 21 x 16 in. (53.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.11
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet · 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 ...