# Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy

- By: Jean François Millet (French, 1814-1875)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Marjorie Blum-Kovler Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/136977)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/514411b3-2930-9245-f9cf-ec8b6c42fb6c/full/843,/0/default.jpg
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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.

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