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The Grafter.
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Woman Carrying Water, in the Vanderbilt collection. It is the erect carriage, the cautious, rhythmic walk, keeping step together, forced upon them by the sense of weight, which gives that gravity and solemnity to the bearers of
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The New-Born Calf (Pl. 7), which was ridiculed by Millet's critics as more befitting the bearers of the bull Apis or the Holy Sacrament. The artist himself was explicit in this instance as in that of the
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Woman Carrying Water.
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The expression of two men carrying a load on a litter, he says,
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Find that expression, whether in face or figure, render it clearly,
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and you have a great, a grave, a classic work of art.
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We are never so truly Greek, he said,
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Woman Carrying Water :
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I have avoided, as I always do, with a sort of horror, everything that might verge on the sentimental ? He wished her to seem
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And he was not always in the austere and epical mood. He could be idyllic as well, and if he could not see
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of life or nature he could feel and make us feel the charm of tranquillity. Indeed, this remark of his about the joyous side of things was made in the dark, early days when life was hardest for him. He broadened in his view as he grew older and conditions became more tolerable, and he has painted a whole series of little pictures of family life and of childhood that, in their smiling seriousness, are endlessly delightful. The same science, the same thoughtfulness, the same concentration and intellectual grasp that defined for us the superb gesture of
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The Sower have gone to the depiction of the adorable uncertainty, between walking and falling, of those
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First Steps (Pl. 8) from the mother's lap to the outstretched arms of the father; and the result, in this case as in the other, is a thing perfectly and permanently expressed. Whatever Millet has done is done. He has
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as it was his dream to do, and written
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Goose Girl