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The Sower

Jean-Francois Millet

The Sower

Jean-Francois Millet
  • Date: c.1865; France  
  • Style: Realism
  • Theme: Sower (1850-1870)
  • Genre: genre painting
  • Media: pastel, crayon, paper
  • Location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, US
  • Dimensions: 43.5 x 53.5 cm
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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.

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