Signed and dated, lower right: "18 [symbol] 55" in monogram "JEM"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.4
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
church | knight (landholder) | sculpture | child | relief | girl | historical subject | costume | opera (discipline) | tomb | war | Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) | war | battle
Currently On View:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition History:
YUAG European Galleries (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-12-01 - 2025-01-15)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Millais (Tate Britain, 2007-09-26 - 2008-01-13)Millais (Van Gogh Museum, 2008-02-15 - 2008-05-18)Millais (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 2008-06-07 - 2008-08-17)Millais (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2008-08-30 - 2008-10-26)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)Pre-Raphaelites (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 9, 16, no. 39, fig. 8, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Susan P. Casteras, English Pre-Raphaelitism and its reception in America in the nineteenth century, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford [N.J.] London Cranbury, NJ, 1990, pp. 76, 95, ND467.5 P7 C37 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 160-161, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Cornelius P. Darcy, The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, 3d ser., v. 24, Manchester University Press, Manchester [England], 1976, p. 158, N5245 D27 (YCBA)Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, Frederic Leighton : death, mortality, resurrection, Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, VT, 2015, pp. 67, 118, fig. 2.12, NJ18.L531 H36 2015 (YCBA)John Everett Millais, Appletons' Journal: a magazine of general literature, vol. 12, no. 292, October 24, 1874, p. 514, Film S2504 (SML) Also available online via Google BooksJulia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 156, no. 63, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)John Guille Millais, The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy, Methuen & co., ltd., London, 1899, pp.237-39 (v. 1), NJ18 M61 M55 1899 (YCBA)Millais, an exhibition organized by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January-April, 1967. , Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & London, 1967, pp. 122-23, NJ18 M61 W35 (YCBA)Leslie Parris, The Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Publishing, London, 1994, p. 136, no. 70, N6767.5 P7 P742 1984 + (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 9, 16, no. 39, fig. 8, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Jason Rosenfeld, Millais, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 100, no. 61, N18 M61 R67 2007 + (YCBA)William Michael Rossetti, Fine art, chiefly contemporary: notices re-printed, with revisions., AMS Press, New York, 1970, p. 218, N7476 R66 1907A (YCBA)John Ruskin, Notes on some of the principal pictures of Sir John Everett Millais, exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1886 : with a preface and original and selected criticisms , William Reese, London, 1886, pp. 20-21, ND4497 M6 R8 1886 + (YCBA RARE BOOKS)M. H. (Marion Henry) Spielmann, Millais and his works, with special reference to the exhibition at the Royal Academy 1898, W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1898, p. 102, no. 59, NJ18 M61 L65 (YCBA)The First hundred years of the Royal Academy, 1769-1868, Winter exhibition, 1951-52. , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951, pp. 122-23 (v,1), no. 289, N5054 .A545 1951/52 (YCBA) Also available Fiche B185 at the YCBA Reference Library and Photo ArchiveThe Royal Academy, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, vol. 2, no. 28, May 10, 1856, p. 32, Available Online : British Periodicals Also Available in Hardcopy : 2000 +S52 (BRBL)Malcolm Warner, Notes on Millais' Use of Subjects from the Opera, 1851-4, The Pre-Raphaelite Review, vol. 2, November 1978, p. 74, NX543 J68 + (LSF)
Gallery Label:
John Everett Millais derived his subject from Donizetti’s opera La Fille du régiment. The heroine of the opera is Marie, offspring of a secret liaison between an aristocratic Englishwoman and a French army officer. After her father’s death in battle in the Napoleonic wars, Marie is adopted by his regiment. Millais represents not a scene from the opera but rather an incident from her earlier life and one of his own invention: during fighting in a church, Marie has been wounded and lies sleeping on a knight’s tomb. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016