Reading the Story of Oenone

ca. 1883

Francis Davis Millet American, 1846-1912

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Reading the Story of Oenone

Artwork Date ca. 1883

Artist Francis Davis Millet

Life Dates 1846-1912

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 × 57 7/8 inches (76.2 × 147 cm) Framed: 51 1/8 × 78 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (129.9 × 200 × 13.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Art Loan Fund and Popular Subscription Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 83.1

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Signed Signed, lower left: F. D. Millet

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1883-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Harper's Weekly (April 14, 1883): p. 229.

Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. 1883, no. 498, 49.

Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. 1883, no. 462 (fig. 7).

Illustrated Catalogue of the Art Gallery of the Southern Exposition. Louisville, 1884, pp. 37-38.

Bulletin of the DMA 1, no. 2 (1904): p. 3.

Bulletin of the DMA 4 (1904): p. 2.

Francis Davis Millet Memorial Meeting. May 10, 1912, no. 26, p. 58 (ill.).

"Detroit Took up Art Just Fifty Years Ago." Art Digest 8 (1933): p. 32.

American Narrative Painting. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1974, no. 78, p. 166 (ill.).

Weinberg, H. Barbara. "The Career of Francis Davis Millet." Archives of American Art Journal 17, no. 1 (1977): pp. 2-18; p. 6 (ill.).

Rivard, Nancy J. "American Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts." The Magazine Antiques 114, no. 5 (November 1978): pp. 1044-1055; p. 1050 (pl. 9).

"Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, May 20, 1979, p. 23 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs 1876-1893. Exh. cat., DIA. 1983, no. 53 (ill.).

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 11 (fig 1).

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Francis Davis Millet, Reading the Story of Oenone, ca. 1883, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Art Loan Fund and Popular Subscription Fund, 83.1.