Water Carrier

Artist Francis Davis Millet (American 1846–1912)

Date1886

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 27 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (69.2 x 42.5 cm)
Frame (estimated): 37 x 26 x 3 in. (94 x 66 x 7.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of David and Myrna Leven

Object number2014.149

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Nineteenth

More Information

Signedbottom left corner: F. D. Millet. 1886

Inscribedframe verso face right rail: WiLLiforD

Exhibition HistoryThe Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America, 1877–1887, The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, October 9, 1999–January 23, 2000; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, February 5–May 7, 2000; Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, May 19–August 13, 2000 Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, September 29–December 17, 1989; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 1–April 15, 1990; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, May 6–July 15, 1990 American Realist and Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Haig Tashjian, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, April 18–June 6, 1982 The American Renaissance: 1876–1917, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, October 13–December 30, 1979; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, February 22–April 30, 1980; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 31–August 10, 1980; Denver Art Museum, September 24–November 30, 1980 American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, December 4, 1976–January 16, 1977; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, February 4–March 20, 1977; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 12–May 29, 1977ProvenanceGraham Williford, Texas. Haig Tashjian, Sterling Regal Collection, New York, NY, until 1988. Jordan Volpe Gallery, New York, NY.Published ReferencesGina M. D'Angelo, "Francis Davis Millet—The Early Years of a 'Cosmopolitan Yankee,' 1846–1884" (PhD diss., The City University of New York, 2004), 66, fig. 2.14. [as "A Handmaid"] Ronald G. Pisano, The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America (exh. cat.) (Stony Brook, NY: The Museums at Stony Brook, 1999), 62 (ill., color), 63. [as "A Handmaiden"] Annette Blaugrund, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (exh. cat.) (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1989), 187, 188 (ill., color), 189, 286 (no. 212). [as "A Handmaiden"] Mary Lublin, 19th and 20th Century Paintings (New York: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1989), 22. [as "A Handmaid"] H. Barbara Weinberg, "Late-Nineteenth-Century American Painting: Cosmopolitan Concerns and Critical Controversies," Archives of American Art Journal 23, no. 4 (1983): 24–25, 26 (fig. 11). [as "A Hand Maid (The Water Carrier)"] The American Renaissance: 1876–1917 (exh. cat.) (New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1979), 158 (fig. 126), no. 217. [as "A Handmaid"] H. Barbara Weinberg, "The Career of Francis Davis Millet," Archives of American Art Journal 17, no. 1 (1977): 7 (fig. 9), 8. [as "A Handmaid"] American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (exh. cat.) (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1976), 18 (fig. 2). James Hunt, comp., A List of Paintings, Drawings, Mural Decorations and Designs, Civil and Military Awards and Literary Works of Francis Davis Millet (Boston, 1920), n.p. (no. 51). Glenn Brown, ed., Francis Davis Millet Memorial Meeting (Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1912), 2 (ill.), 59 (no. 34). [as "The Pompeiian Girl," p. 2, and "A Pompeian Girl," p. 59] George William Sheldon, Recent Ideals of American Art (New York: D. Appleton, 1880), 49 (ill.), 54.