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Digging Sand, or The Sand Cart

Artist: Anton Mauve, Dutch, 1838-1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Place Made: Netherlands
Dates: ca. 1875
Dimensions: 21 15/16 x 31 15/16 in. (55.7 x 81.1 cm)
Signature: Signed bottom right: "A Mauve f"
Inscriptions: Verso center cross bar: "1578" Verso center cross bar on paper label: "11161"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 51.13
Credit Line: Gift of Charlotte Stillman
Image: Overall, 51.13_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009

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