Eight men playing quoits in a woodland clearing. Etching by Eugèe Henri Millet, 1873.

  • Millet, Eugène Henri, active 1860-1875.
Date:
[1873]
Reference:
33173i
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Eight men playing quoits in a woodland clearing. Etching by Eugèe Henri Millet, 1873. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

One man is lighting his cigar or pipe from another man's. There are tables and seats. Bird traps and nets are visible in the trees

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [A. Cadart], [1873]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 14.4 x 22.9 cm

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Lettering

Eug. Millet. 1873. Accompanied by a quatrain below the image "Du vin! Versez! Buvons!... ce n'est pas vie d'ivrogne" from poem "L'ouvrier" by Jean Dolent: present on the impression catalogued? (to be confirmed)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33173i

Creator/production credits

Jean Dolent wrote an article on artists' representations of workers ('L'ouvrier', L'art universel, no. 12, 1er août 1874, p. 178), but it has no obvious connection with the present etching. Millet contributed etchings to several of Dolent's publications

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