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Man ploughing and another sowing
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Description
Xu Bing has said, in reference to the late 1970s, ‘My greatest feelings at that time were for the French artist Millet and the Chinese artist Gu Yuan. Both dealt with the peasantry’. Jean-François Millet’s composition here is similar to the Russian artist Ilya Repin’s drawing of Tolstoy ploughing his neighbour’s field, an image Xu Bing may have seen in a book of Repin’s drawings given to him as a school student.
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe › France › Seine-et-Marne › Barbizon (place of creation)Europe › France › Seine-et-Marne › Barbizon (subject)
- Date
- 1849 - 1852
- Artist/maker
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Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
- Material and technique
- black crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet 14.5 x 21.2 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Percy Moore Turner, 1951.
- Accession no.
- WA1951.22
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Further reading
Lloyd, Christopher; Ekelhart, Christine, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolours, Drawings (Vienna: Albertina, 2012), cat. fig. 12, p. 50, p. 51
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 17 on p. 52, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 52 fig. 17
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- Western Art Print Room
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