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Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap, or Man Pushing a Wheelbarrow
Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap, or Man Pushing a Wheelbarrow

Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap, or Man Pushing a Wheelbarrow

Artist/Maker (French, 1814–1875)
Date1855–56
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 5 in. (15.9 × 12.7 cm)
Plate: 6 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (16.5 × 13.3 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 6 1/2 in. (20.3 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineAllen Memorial Art Museum
Object number1900.28
Status
Not on view
More Information
Millet focused on the human figure – rather than on the natural landscape – to express the fundamental essence of the land. With simple monumental forms, he ennobled both the peasant and his agrarian labors in paintings, drawings and prints. This print repeats a composition Millet had already worked out in earlier drawings and paintings, leaving him free to concentrate on the technical challenges of the etched medium.
ProvenanceCircumstances of acquisition unrecorded.Exhibition History
The Humble Landscape: Barbizon Works
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (June 10, 1986 - July 20, 1986 )
The Nature of Realism: Courbet and Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 1994 - December 20, 1994 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Picturing the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
  • European
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