Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy | The Art Institute of Chicago

Prints and Drawings

1869/70

Jean François Millet
French, 1814-1875

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.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean François Millet
Title: Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
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Medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 30.4 × 36.5 cm (12 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marjorie Blum-Kovler Collection and the Harry and Maribel G. Blum Foundation
Reference Number: 1995.54
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