The Reaper

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1895

Constantin Emile Meunier
Belgian, 1831-1905

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Constantin Emile Meunier
Title: The Reaper
Place: Belgium (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1895
Medium: Bronze, dark brown patina
Inscriptions: Signed at proper left, on plinth, rear: E. VERBEYST.FONDEUR./BRUXELLES./ Inscribed on upper surfacs of plinth, in script: C. Meunier.
Dimensions: 56.5 × 43.2 × 23.5 cm (22 1/4 × 17 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Celia Schmidt
Reference Number: 1977.928
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Walther Gensel, Constantin Meunier (Bielefeld und Leipzig, 1905), p. 37 (ill.).
Christian Brinton, Constantin Meunier (New York, Columbia University, 1914), p.45 (ill.). [labeled as The Mower]
Louis Piérard, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Dietrich, 1937), p. 23 (ill.). [labeled as Le Faucher au Travail, The Mower, Der Maher]
Sura Levine and Françoise Urban, “Constantin Meunier, A Life of Labor,” Hommage à Constantin Meunier, 1831–1905 [Galerie Maurice Tzwern, 1998], pp. 68–9, no. 13.

Celia Schmidt, Chicago, before 1977; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1977.

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