Evening, from "Four Times of the Day"
Medium
Wood engraving on chine collé
Dimensions
Block: 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 in. (15 x 21.9 cm) Sheet: 8 7/16 × 11 3/8 in. (21.4 × 28.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.84.3
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About this artwork
This evocative wood engraving represents one panel from Jean-François Millet's celebrated 'Four Times of the Day' series, masterfully translated into print by the renowned engraver Jacques-Adrien Lavieille and published in 1860. The series depicts the cyclical rhythm of peasant life throughout a day: morning's departure for the fields, midday's restful siesta, evening's return from labor, and night's continuation of household work by candlelight. Millet, the great painter of peasant life at Barb...
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet|Jacques-Adrien Lavieille · 1814–1875
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school, whose dignified depictions of peasant laborers transformed how art could represent rural life. His monumental images of sowers, gleaners, and field workers elevated common people to subjects previously reserved for mythological or historical figures, making him a pivotal figure in the development ...