Art, literature & history
Evening (La viellee)
1856
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with burnishing on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 5 × 10.7 cm (1 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 19.8 × 14.7 cm (7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1953.6.95
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-François Millet. Evening (La viellee). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Evening (La viellee) — Jean-François Millet. 1856.
Medium: etching with burnishing on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 5 × 10.7 cm (1 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 19.8 × 14.7 cm (7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1953.6.95. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.