1867
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A hilly landscape with trees is a 1867 watercolor by Jean François Millet, a Barbizon school work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a soft hillside dotted with skinny trees. The colors are pale blues, greens and tans. It’s small—about the size of a paperback book. Millet sketched this outdoors, not in a studio. He used quick, light brushstrokes to catch the way morning light fades into mist. This habit stayed with him for years. Look up Millet, Jean-François to see more of his quiet landscapes.
A watercolour sketch by Jean-François Millet from 1867, this work depicts a hilly landscape with clusters of trees rendered in olive green and brown tones. Created near Vichy, France, where Millet frequently stayed between 1866 and 1868, the sketch was initially drawn outdoors before being refined with watercolour in the studio. Subtle signs of human presence, such as farmed fields and a distant house, appear alongside the natural scenery, reflecting Millet’s focus on rural life. The piece is part of a group of four landscapes in the V&A collection and was purchased by Constantine Alexander…
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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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