Fine, Miche Jules! Jules!
Date1909
Artist
Stanley Massey Arthurs
(American painter, 1877–1950)
Illustration CitationPossun Jone and Pere Raphael, by George Washington Cable (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909).
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions28 × 18 in. (71.1 × 45.7 cm)
frame: 32 × 22 in. (81.3 × 55.9 cm)
frame: 32 × 22 in. (81.3 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Nancy Walker, 1996
Object number1996-19
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextWritten in a Louisiana dialect, George Washington Cable's story includes the Protestant Parson Jones, who conflicts with the Catholic Jules St.-Ange. Here, as the mistress of a house pushes her enslaved maid from the room, she expresses hope that the missing Jules will be found.
