Landscape, Vichy
ca. 1866–67
Medium
Pen and brown (iron gall) ink with brown and green washes over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
4 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (11.3 x 15.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grégoire Tarnopol, 1979, and Gift of Alexander Tarnopol, 1980
Accession Number
1980.21.14
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 ...