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Woman feeding hens

Woman feeding hens
(Femme aux poules)
 (1893)
plate from Les Travaux des Champs (Work in the fields), first series, published by Vale Press, London, 1904

Medium
colour woodcut
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1914
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
colour woodcut
Measurements
13.1 × 7.0 cm (image) 21.6 × 15.8 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Leymarie & Melot P201
Edition
edition of 25
Printing/Publishing
printed by Lucien Pissarro, London
Accession Number
647-2
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1914
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Agriculture Human Figures Labour, Industry and Machinery
Subjects (specific)
chicken (species) feeding labour pastoral poultry profiles (figures) reproductive prints women (female humans)

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Series

Work in the fields

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Ploughing

Part of series

Women tending cows

Part of series

Studies

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Weeders

Part of series

Women herb gathering

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