Casgliadau Arlein

Dechreuwyd ar y gwaith hwn ym 1871-72 ond ni chafodd ei orffen. Mae'r olygfa deimladwy yn dangos teulu gwerinol Normanaidd ar glos eu fferm. Mae'n ymgorffori elfen gyntefig a all fod yn deillio o gerflunwaith yr Aifft a darluniau Quattrocento a welodd Millet yn y Louvre. Meddai'r arlunydd Prydeinig Sickert: 'Mae'r dyn tawel a'i gymar difrifol yn wynebu'r gynulleidfa gyda dwysedd a chymesuredd dwy golofn, a'r plentyn, fel Samson bychan, yn dangos cryfder pileri ei dŷ'. Prynodd Margaret Davies y gwaith hwn ym 1911.

Begun in 1871-72 but left unfinished, this haunting scene depicts a Norman peasant family in their farmyard. It embodies a primitivism which may draw upon Egyptian sculpture and Quattrocento paintings seen by Millet in the Louvre. The British painter Sickert commented: 'The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry of two caryatids, while the child essays, a baby Samson, the strength of the pillars of his house'. Margaret Davies purchased this work in 1911.