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The peasant family
MILLET, Jean-François (1814-1875)
Begun in 1871-72 but left unfinished, this haunting scene depicts a Norman peasant family in their farmyard. It embodies a primitivism which may draw upon Egyptian sculpture and Quattrocento paintings seen by Millet in the Louvre. The British painter Sickert commented: 'The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry of two caryatids, while the child essays, a baby Samson, the strength of the pillars of his house'. Margaret Davies purchased this work in 1911.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2473
Creation/Production
MILLET, Jean-François
Date: 1871-1872
Acquisition
Bequest, 12/12/1963
Measurements
Height
(cm): 110.4
Width
(cm): 81
Height
(in): 43
Width
(in): 31
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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