The Sower

ca. 1865

53.5 cm 43.5 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. M...

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Montaignac, Paris; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, June 9, 1884 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 588.
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