The Harvest Moon

1860

Oil on canvas

Overall: 24 x 39 in. ( 61 x 99.1 cm )
Framed: 35 3/4 × 50 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (90.8 × 128.3 × 9.5 cm)

The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart

S-160

Mignot's aesthetics ranged from the operatic sublime of the Ecuadorian tropics and Niagara Falls to intimate views of anonymous American harvest fields, as exemplified here. Harvest themes were frequently addressed at midcentury, often out of moralizing aims associated with national politics or the economy. In this case, however, Mignot eschewed obvious narrative content and gave greater attention to the formal aspects of his art. As Mignot's contemporary the influential critic Henry T. Tuckerman, wrote: "He [Mignot] has a remarkable facility of catching the expression, often the vague, but, therefore, more interesting, expression of a scene. . . . "

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