An Autumn Idyll
Date: 1892
Dimensions: Height: 54.76 cm (21.56 in.), Width: 33.66 cm (13.25 in.)
Medium: Painting – oil on canvas
Owner/Location: Brooklyn Museum (United States – New York)
Description
Signed lower left, FD Millet ’92. Two women dressed in classical robes are on a patio. One stands on a wall and picks fruit from the vine that grow above the columns. The other is seated beside her holding a plate with the picked fruits.
Tags:
arbor, blue skies, Classical columns, female beauty, gowns, grace, grapes, Grecian harvest, idyll, leaves, marble, painting, pergola, plucking, season, two women, vines
Exhibitions / Provenance
Exhibitions:
1979, The American Renaissance: 1876-1917. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, American Art Department, October 13, 1979 through December 30, 1979
1990, A Celebration of American Ideals: Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, American Art Department, May 27, 1990 through July 22, 1990
Provenance:
1931
Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam to the Brooklyn Museum, 32.844 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.32.844.jpg) Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Accession Number: 32.844
Research / Publications
1979, “The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings,” Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1979.
1984, “Woman: February 21-April 22, 1984,” Evanston, IL: Terra Museum of American Art,
2006, “American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876,” Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 795. Illustration plate 123.
2021, October 6,