The Sower

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The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.

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The Sower canonical 2
Le Semeur 1
Sower 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
artist Jean-François Millet
artisticTheme dignity of peasant labor
relationship between humans and land
social conditions of rural workers
symbolism of sowing and growth
basedOn rural life in France
collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
surface form: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection
colorPalette earth tones
countryOfOrigin France
creator Jean-François Millet
creatorMovement Barbizon school
surface form: Barbizon School
creatorNationality French
depicts peasant farmer
rural labor
sowing seeds
depictsTimeOfDay dawn or dusk
describedAs iconic work of 19th-century Realism
powerful depiction of rural labor
genre social realism
hasCulturalSignificance emblematic image of the French peasantry
hasGenre genre painting
hasPart bag of seeds
distant landscape
dramatic lighting
figure of a man walking across a field
ploughed field
inception 1850
circa mid-19th century
influenced Vincent van Gogh’s paintings of sowers
influencedBy French rural countryside
social concerns about peasantry in 19th-century France
languageOfWork none (visual artwork)
location Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
mainSubject Farmer
surface form: sower
materialUsed oil paint
movement Realism
notableFor monumental treatment of a peasant figure
strong contrast of light and shadow
symbolic representation of labor and hope
originalTitle The Sower self-linksurface differs
surface form: Le Semeur
partOf Millet’s series of peasant scenes
period mid-19th century
subjectMatter agricultural work
seed sowing
support canvas
titleLanguage French

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sauer hasVariant The Sower
this entity surface form: Sower
The Sower originalTitle The Sower self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Le Semeur
The Sower (Arles version) inspiredBy The Sower
this entity surface form: The Sower (Jean-François Millet)