Title

The Sower, c1865. Creator: Jean Francois Millet.

Caption

The Sower, c1865. Millet first gained widespread notoriety with his iconic image of a sower shown at the 1850/51 Paris Salon. In this pastel version, he integrates the sower into the landscape around Barbizon with a harrower, a flock of crows, and the tower of Chailly visible in the distance. Millet built up his composition with a network of black chalk lines before adding his pastels.

Date

Jan 01, 0001

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B21_461

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,2Mb (3,2Mb) / 16,5in x 13,7in / 4960 x 4103 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe scenic animal season agriculture people job man men farming landscape arts bird birds class country French France agricultural art guy occupation continent spring museum European color rustic farmer farmland scenery location century ploughing vista harrow profession crows labourer labourers concept Seine-et-Marne sowing peasant peasants crow Working Class daily Life Colour Realism 19th century background people working-class Ile-de-France farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers Realist farmworker farmworkers nineteenth century rural agricultural worker artistic movement artistic school farm labourer genre scene navvy rural life social class TGN villager Barbizon School Barbizon Jean Francois Millet Jean-Francois Millet Jean-Fran?ois Millet Millet Jean Francois Regionalism Walters Art Museum JF Millet villagers art movement Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Millet Jean-Fran?ois 19th-century agricultural labourer Jean Fran?ois Millet pastel and crayon or pastel on cream buff paper