Jean-François Millet · 1850
The Sower
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A peasant in a battered hat strides across a rising field, scattering seed from a bag with his right hand while crows pick at the soil on the left and a man with oxen harrows the ground at the right in the early light. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Up to 16 × 19.7 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Sower
Millet moved to Barbizon in 1849, and The Sower was the first major picture he painted there. The Boston canvas has been in the Museum of Fine Arts since 1917. He painted a nearly identical second version the same year, now in the Yamanashi Prefectural Art Museum, which he showed at the Salon of 1850. Vincent van Gogh later copied the composition several times.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.
All Jean-François Millet prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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