The Old Mill (Vieux Moulin)

Theodore Robinson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

After first visiting Giverny, a picturesque village in Normandy, in 1885, Robinson spent long periods there from 1887 to 1892 and became friendly with Claude Monet. Surrounded by fields of wheat and oats, Giverny supported three gristmills, including the old Moulin de Chennevières, seen here. The plow-ridged fields, the grain stack in the distance, and the mill itself summarize the seasonal cycle of cultivation, harvest, and milling. Monet’s three famous series of 1890 to 1892, depicting, respectively, stacks of grain, rows of poplars, and Rouen Cathedral, clearly influenced Robinson, who portrayed this old mill at least five times.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art