Landscape, Vichy
ca. 1866-67
Jean-François Millet is best known for his solemn peasant paintings, but this sketch reveals his restless eye for raw nature. Created around 1866 near the spa town of Vichy, the work uses scratchy ink lines and loose washes of green and brown to capture a rugged hillside. It feels less like a polished masterpiece and more like a quick, passionate note taken right there in the field, showing how the Realist master found drama in simple dirt and trees.
- Technique
- Pen and ink with watercolor wash
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