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Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy
Jean François Millet1869/70
- Attribution
- Jean François Millet French, 1814-1875
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Physical 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
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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.
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