Baby's Slumber
Artist
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814-1875)
Dateca. 1855
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (46.4 x 37.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 26 3/4 × 23 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (68 × 59 × 7 cm)
Overall, Frame: 26 3/4 × 23 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (68 × 59 × 7 cm)
ClassificationsEuropean art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.517
Terms
- Genre
- peasants
- Mother
- Baby
- Dark red
- Blue
- Light brown
- Dark Brown
- Yellow
- Barbizon School
- Realism
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Not on viewLabel TextJean-François Millet French, 1814–1875 Baby's Slumber, ca. 1855 Oil on canvas Shh! A mother quietly sews while her baby soundly sleeps in the cradle and her husband labors int he garden outside. This scene of silence and rural contentment has an almost religious and timeless quality. Jean François Millet was the most important painter who left Paris for the innocence and unchanged countryside of Barbizon, 40 miles from Paris and close to the Forest of Fontainebleau. Both areas became artist's colonies, overrun with painters seeking to capture rural life and labor in an area untouched by industrialization. Their realistic style, learned from studying old Dutch painting in the Louvre, inspired Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.517
