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Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy
Jean François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
1869/70
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 30.4 × 36.5 cm (12 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Marjorie Blum-Kovler Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
