| Maker(s): | Hervier, Adolphe | | Culture: | French (1818-1879)
| | Title: | Woman with a Pig
| | Date Made: | 1854
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Lithograph
| | Place Made: | Europe
| | Measurements: | Mat: 19 1/4 in x 14 1/4 in; 48.9 cm x 36.2 cm; Sheet: 16 13/16 in x 11 7/8 in; 42.7 cm x 30.2 cm; Plate/Image: 7 15/16 in x 6 in; 20.2 cm x 15.2 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | Prints and paintings of farm animals characterized midcentury naturalism, together with the rise of peasant imagery and landscape. These were all counter-images of the industrial revolution, that is, their aura of pastoral productivity was a welcome contrast to the trauma of rapid social change. The fame of Rosa Bonheur and of Constant Troyon, for example, established shortly after the Revolution of 1848, rested on their pictures of cattle, sheep, horses, and hunting dogs. Bonheur's and Troyo
| | Accession Number: | MH 1993.8.4
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Jean C. Harris Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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