Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy
Jean François Millet
1869/70
Medium
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
30.4 × 36.5 cm (12 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136977
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.