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View of farm buildings across a fieldfront

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View of farm buildings across a field

  • Description

    The content and composition of this drawing are remarkably similar to small watercolour Xu Bing drew just over a century later, depicting a scene near his home at Peking University.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › France (Gréville) (place of creation)
    Europe › France (Gréville) (subject)
    Date
    6 August 1871
    Artist/maker
    Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
    Material and technique
    graphite, black chalk or crayon, pen, and brown ink, touched with green, blue-green, and red crayon on wove paper
    Dimensions
    sheet 17.8 x 22.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    inorganic › stone › graphite,
    inorganic › mineral › graphite,
    processed material › paper,
    inorganic › stone › limestone › chalk
    Technique index
    processed material › paper
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Percy Moore Turner, 1951.
    Accession no.
    WA1951.25

  • Further reading

    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. 19 on p. 54, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 54 fig. 19

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