Falling Leaves
c. 1866
Jean-François Millet captures the melancholic beauty of autumn in this moody landscape, where a lone shepherd stands amidst tall, dark trees watching leaves drift to the ground. His flock of sheep grazes quietly nearby, seemingly indifferent to the changing season. As a leader of the Barbizon school, Millet helped pioneer Realism, a movement that decided peasants and nature were just as worthy of art as kings and gods. He often worked from sketches made outdoors, finishing them in his studio to capture the emotional 'feeling' of the landscape rather than just a photographic copy.
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