Unknown (Women Filling Water Jugs)
Artist
Félix Bracquemond
, engraver
French, 1833 - 1914
Artistafter
Jean-François Millet
French, born Normandy, 1814 - 1875
Printer
Georges Petit, Publisher
French, Paris, 1856 - 1920
Date1886
MediumDrypoint (non-chemical 'etching') and possibly etching, black ink on wove paper laid on card or mat board
DimensionsSheet: 24 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (61.6 x 47.6 cm)
Image Size: 17 15/16 x 13 in. (45.6 x 33 cm)
Image Size: 17 15/16 x 13 in. (45.6 x 33 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift from the Hoopes Family to the Pruyn Family Collection
Object number2008.19
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Works on Paper
Signed"Bracquemond" in pencil script below the lower right corner of the image and in the lower right, engraved in the plate "J.F. Millet" in script.
InscribedIn pencil on the back of the mounting board "Pruyne" and "Mr Hyde/#042508---20(?)4/ 1/2 in Ebony" (probably referring to framing instructions). Below this "Pruyn" underlined but also crossed out. In the lower right there is a rough plan of what appears to be a river bend with a square and an oval on the right and to the right of this a pair of lines that may represent a road or drive, possibly having to do with the location of the Pruyn paper manufactory or Hyde House.
Markings"PUBLIÉ PAR GEORGES PETIT, 12, RUE GODOT DE MAUROY, PARIS, OCTOBRE, 1886" printed in the margin just above the upper right edge of the plate.
"CP" [note 1/19/2011,check that this is not GP, for the publisher] in a small beaded oval blindstamp embossed into the paper just below the lower left corner of the image. There appear to be other letters in the surrounding oval frame but they are illegible.
DescriptionIn the foreground two women in peasant dress dip large ceramics jugs into a body of water. One is kneeling while holding the jug in the water, the other stands to the right watching with her left hand on her waist and two jugs standing on the ground to her left.In the right background a figure rides a horse in the water towards the right bank of the water, from the left background shore another figure rides a horse to the water's edge while leading two horses.
Slightly distant from the shore are trees with a rayed-sun rising above.
See Notes for possible sources.
ProvenanceSamuel Pruyn, Glens Falls, NY, by 1910; Mary and Maurice Hoopes, Glens Falls, NY; by descent to Kam Hoopes, Bolton Landing, NY; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 2008.
