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The End of the Workday (La fin de la journée)
1865-187029 1/4 x 37 x 3/4 in. (74.3 x 94 x 1.9 cm)
Jean François Millet
France (1814 - 1875)
Object Type:
Drawing
Medium and Support:
Pastel and crayon on paper
Credit Line:
George Eastman Collection of the University of Rochester
Accession Number:
1936.74
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
George Eastman Collection
On one of their many long, evening walks, Millet said to his brother Pierre: “It is astonishing toward the approach of night, how grand everything on the plain appears, especially when we see figures thrown out against the sky. Then they look like giants.”
The End of the Workday showcases Millet’s fascination with the hour of twilight, which moved him by its power to transform human and other natural forms into strange shapes, evocative of dreams. The pastel, which shows a peasant silhouetted against the fading sky, putting on his jacket after a day of labor, is classic Millet. Best known as a painter of peasants, a politically and socially complex subject matter in France of the 1800s, his scenes of rural life focused on the human figure as much if not more than the landscape.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
The End of the Workday showcases Millet’s fascination with the hour of twilight, which moved him by its power to transform human and other natural forms into strange shapes, evocative of dreams. The pastel, which shows a peasant silhouetted against the fading sky, putting on his jacket after a day of labor, is classic Millet. Best known as a painter of peasants, a politically and socially complex subject matter in France of the 1800s, his scenes of rural life focused on the human figure as much if not more than the landscape.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Provenance
M. Knoedler (dealer), New York
Keywords
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genre scenes
scenes of everyday life
scenes of everyday life
jobs & work
depictions of working, also professions as subcategories
depictions of working, also professions as subcategories
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Rebels in Art 12/4/1936 - 1/17/1937
- The Precursors of Modern Art 10/1/1938 - 10/31/1938
- Retrospective of French Art Memorial Art Gallery 6/1/1948 - 9/1/1948
- The George Eastman Collection of Paintings end date ca. December 1949
- Permanent Collection Treasures 6/1/1957 - 8/31/1957
- Summer Exhibit of Permanent Collection 6/1/1959 - 8/31/1959
- Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/14/1977 - 5/28/1977
- The George Eastman Collection 12/1/1979 - 1/13/1980
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery Rochester Institute of Technology 10/9/1982 - 11/4/1982
- Works on Paper from the George Eastman Collection October 27, 1989 - closed in January, 1990
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Schwartz, Roberta M.. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 114-115
- Article Title: Works from Eastman Collection On View in Daley Gallery. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Issue Date: November-December 1989. Page Number: 4
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1977.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Donald Rosenthal, ed. The George Eastman Collection. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1979.
- Apollo. London, England: Apollo
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Laurent Manoeuvre. Jean-François Millet: Pastels et dessins. Paris, France: Biliothèque de l'lmage, 2002.
- The Precursors of Modern Art: The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, October 1938. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1938.
- Master Drawings from the Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1982.
- Article Author: Fratello, Bradley. Article Title: Standing on Holy Ground: Van Gogh, Millet, Symbolism and Suicide. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Dorothy Kosinski. Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Page Number: 46, Figure Number: 4, p. 46
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Chantal Georgel. Millet. Paris, France: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2014.
- Arthur Hoeber. The Barbizon Painters: Being the Story of the Men of Thirty. New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1915.
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It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013