1848
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Female nude in a forest landscape is a 1848 by Jean François Millet, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a woman in a forest, done in pencil. It’s a study of form and light, not a quick sketch. Millet made it between 1846 and 1850. It’s part of a shift in his work. He mixed classic training with a new way of seeing nature. By 1849 he helped start the Barbizon School. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum if you want to see more from Millet.
A female nude sits in a forest grove, her body turned inward as she gazes at her raised leg and hand, rendered in pierre noire pencil with heavy contour lines and dramatic chiaroscuro. The work reflects Millet’s stylistic shift in the late 1840s, blending academic tradition with emerging Naturalism. An unfinished portrait of a woman on the reverse, similar to his late 1840s drawings, suggests the drawing was executed around 1848–49. Millet’s arcadian subject and influences from Poussin, Michelangelo, and Narcisse Diaz mark this period as transitional in his oeuvre.
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Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: ; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.
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