Mid-Day, from "Four Times of the Day"
Medium
Wood engraving on chine collé
Dimensions
Block: 5 7/8 x 8 11/16 in. (15 x 22 cm) Sheet: 8 3/16 × 10 11/16 in. (20.8 × 27.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.84.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Mid-Day, from *Four Times of the Day is a captivating wood engraving on chineé created between 1830 and 1875 by Jean-François Millet and-Adrien Lavieille Millet, a pioneer of the Realism movement and key figure in the Barbizon School, often depicted the honest labors of rural French peasants with profound empathy. Collaborating with engraver Lavieille, produced this print as part of a series evoking the rhythms of daily life across the day's hours, blending Millet's compositional vision with Lavieille's precise woodcut technique. The medium—wood engraving on chine collé—highlights 19th-centu...
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 ...