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Four Oxen Pulling a Plough, 1853. Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk.
Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk · Sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Four Oxen Pulling a Plough
- Artist
- Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1810–1865
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.