After the Festival
Artist
Francis Davis Millet
(American, 1846 - 1912)
Date1888
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 20 x 16 1/4in. (50.8 x 41.3cm)
Framed: 31 1/2 x 27 x 3 1/2in. (80 x 68.6 x 8.9cm)
Framed: 31 1/2 x 27 x 3 1/2in. (80 x 68.6 x 8.9cm)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Terms
Object number93.20
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightNo known copyright restrictions.
Label TextMillet based his figure paintings on extensive antiquarian research. He was deeply interested in historical costumes and lectured on the subject in Boston and New York. He began painting works with classical themes about six years before the museum's picture was painted. Its cool, silver tonalities, classical setting and costume, and the woman's mood of quiet reverie all derive from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's (1836-1912) most famous and successful work, A Reading From Homer (1885, Philadelphia Museum of Art), which Millet saw in London. It is not clear if the letters he depicted in the back of the marble bench were intended to be read as CAE. C[?]O., an abbreviated form of Caesar Consul.
Paul D. Schweizer
