Landscape with Cattle
1866/1867
Medium
Brush and blackish brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
10.9 × 15.5 cm (4 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44508
Art Historical Context
Jean-François Millet's *Landscape with Cattle* (6/1867) captures the serene beauty of rural France through a modest yet masterful drawing on ivory wove paper. Measuring just 10.9 × 15.5 cm, this intimate work in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings collection showcases Millet's keen observation of everyday pastoral life. As a leading figure in the Barbizon and French Realism, Millet elevated humble subjects like grazing cattle amid rolling landscapes, moving away from idealized Romanticism toward truthful depictions of the countryside. Rendered in brush and blackish brown ink over g...