Landscape, Vichy
ca. 1866–67
Medium
Pen and brown ink over graphite. Blue, black and green chalk on laid paper (watermark: bunch of grapes)
Dimensions
Overall: 8 9/16 x 11 1/4in. (21.7 x 28.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Gift, 1970
Accession Number
1970.269
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-François Millet · 1814–1875
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school, whose dignified depictions of peasant laborers transformed how art could represent rural life. His monumental images of sowers, gleaners, and field workers elevated common people to subjects previously reserved for mythological or historical figures, making him a pivotal figure in the development ...