Detail: Departure for Work (Le Départ pour le Travail)

Jean-François Millet1863

Details

Title: Detail: Departure for Work (Le Départ pour le Travail)
Creator: Jean-François Millet
Date Created: 1863
Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Keywords: France, genre, labor
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: One of two trial proofs
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 227 mm x 144 mm (8.94 in. x 5.67 in.).
Bibliography: Melot 19; Quinter IV; Robert L. Herbert, “Peasants and ‘Primitivism’: French Prints from Millet to Gauguin” (South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1995) cat. no. 32, pp.46–47.
Associated People: Created by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
Accession Number: 1937.D1.129.2

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