# Working Peasant, in 18th-century Italy

Carlo Marchionni drew this in 1728–78, aged 26. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> A peasant working reaching into a bag filled with produce.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1728–78
- Medium: Brush and sepia on laid paper
- Dimensions: 28.3 x 19.8 cm (11 1/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1901-39-556
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Carlo Marchionni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/carlo-marchionni), Italian, 1702–1786

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Carlo Marchionni's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-carlo-marchionni?hang=748) (8 works)
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