Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy
Jean François Millet
1869–1870
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 30.4 × 36.5 cm (12 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)pen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Famous as a painter of rural life, in the late 1860s Millet focused on the spa town of Vichy in south central France, where his ailing wife sought a cure in thermal springs. This striking ink drawing may depict Vichy or Millet’s home of Gruchy, Normandy, where he stayed in 1870–71, during the Franco-Prussian War. Here the landscape—with an unusually raised horizon line—dominates rural life.
