Sir John Everett Millais
English, 1829-1896
The Baby House
INV-1295
Sir John Everett Millais
English, 1829-18961863
The Baby House
Sir John Everett Millais English, 1829-1896 →etchingprint
Date
1863
Medium
Etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 14.5 × 18.4 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.); Sheet: 28 × 38.5 cm (11 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Sir John Everett Millais was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a self-titled group of British artists who broke from the 19th-century art establishment and instead drew inspiration from art predating the Renaissance. In their work, they emphasized purity of form and direct observation of nature. Much of Millais’s later work, including this etching, departed from the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and dealt with the themes of domesticity and family life that were popular with Victorian audiences.
Also notable
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