# Working Peasant, in Drawings of the 18th century

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=749) (8 works)
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