About This Artwork

Jacques Adrien Lavieille (French, 1818-1862)
after Jean François Millet (French, 1814-1875)

Woman Crushing Flax, 1853, after drawing made in 1852

Wood engraving on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
134 x 75 mm (image); 183 x 132 mm (primary support); 338 x 271 mm (secondary support)
Gift of Alice H. Brown in memory of Cyrus Hall McCormick, 1944.78

Beraldi p. 70 under Millet; Beraldi p. 65-67 under Lavieille; Lebrun p. 59