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The Wheat Reaper

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

SKU: TRG-PRINT-UNF-METM-371541 Categories: Best Sellers, Giclee Prints Tags: Figures, Work & Labor Artist: Millet, Jean-Francois

Tags: Figures, Work & Labor

Description

The Wheat Reaper is seen largely from behind, bending slightly over the grain with a tool in hand. His full figure occupies the left-middle ground, connecting the individual worker with the field around him. The woodcut after Millet gives the harvesting task a direct bodily form, allowing a modest posture to carry the image’s practical meaning.

Dated 1853, the woodcut on chine collé was engraved by Jacques-Adrien Lavieille after Jean-François Millet’s design. The separate credits preserve the relationship between the represented composition and the printed block. The work brings rural effort into a concentrated graphic form, allowing the task to carry both bodily action and meaning. Its appeal lies in that specificity, where one recognizable part of gathering food receives the sustained attention of a complete printed image.

Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Jean-François Millet collection.