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

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

1863
19th century
227 x 144 mm (8.9 x 5.7 in.)

Jean-François Millet, French, (1814–1875)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching on laid paper
Print impression quality: Good
Edition: One of two trial proofs. Per original DAC catalog card: “Before signature and addresses / 2 other trial proofs are in Chicago / see Melot, 1978, pp. 288–89 and No. 1, p. 289.”
Marks: Unsigned
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421)
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.
Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Accession Number: 1937.D1.129.2

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This object has the following keywords:
France*, genre*, labor*
  • France - TGN 1000070
  • genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
  • labor - Usage in the sense of physical work

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  • plate Dimensions: 227 x 144 mm (8.9 x 5.7 in.)

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