There is a similar bronze version of Le Mineur called Le Faneur (The Haymaker), which Levy is known to have recast several times in different sizes (ie 100, 75, 50 and 25 centimetres). Levy has used exactly the same male model for the two versions; the differences between the two works are subtle and in each case they underline the men's different occupations.

Charles Octave Levy was a pupil of Armand Toussaint (1806-1862). He exhibited at the French Salon from 1873 to 1898 and won the third-class prize in 1889.