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Peasant Digging

Peasant Digging

Jean François Millet

1863

Medium: Woodcut in black, retouched with charcoal and Chinese white on buff wove paper
Dimensions: 17.3 × 12.2 cm (6 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Genre: woodcut
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

Tags

plant materialprintprints and drawingwoodcutpaper (fiber product)charcoal

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