The Mower

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Artist: Georges Seurat
Date: 1881–82
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 6 1/2 × 9 7/8 in. (16.5 × 25.1 cm) Framed: 14 3/8 × 17 7/8 in. (36.5 × 45.4 cm)
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #977947 · 51%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B19561 · 11%

Pine Needle · Green family · #35412B · 10%

Aged Bronze Brown · Brown family · #69553A · 6%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2B403D · 5%

Slate Night · Black family · #232631 · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7E7256 · 3%

Granite Face · Gray family · #7E7867 · 2%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #45352F · 2%

Lampblack · Black family · #121006 · 1%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #BDAB80 · 1%

Pine Needle · Green family · #4C5E45 · 1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #77764A · 1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #97684E · <1%

Stormwash · Blue family · #556876 · <1%

Rainworn Cedar · Brown family · #6B5352 · <1%

Ochre Kiln · Orange family · #AE771F · <1%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #78868F · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

9 tags

Work and Workers Both · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists the subject as “Working,” and the image clearly shows a person engaged in agricultural labor with a scythe.
Landscapes Visual · 99%

The composition presents a broad cultivated field extending across the image, with a distant horizontal band of vegetation.
Human Figure Visual · 99%

A clearly recognizable human figure occupies the central area of the composition in a bent, active pose.
Movement Visual · 88%

The worker’s bent body, extended arms, and diagonally positioned scythe visually convey an active cutting gesture.

Earth Tones Visual · 97%

The image is dominated by ocher, gold, tan, olive-green, blue, and muted reddish tones.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The museum catalog identifies the medium as oil on wood.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 94%

Numerous short, directional strokes are visibly retained across the grain, clothing, vegetation, and sky, producing a broken textured surface.

19th Century Art Metadata · 100%

The catalog dates the work to 1881–82, placing it in the nineteenth century.

French Art Metadata · 99%

The artist is identified in the catalog as French, Paris 1859–1891 Paris.

Georges Seurat. The Mower. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.