Farm in Normandy
Jean-François Millet
(French, 1814–1875)
1870–71
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink over graphite pencil on dark cream laid paper
Dimensions18 x 23.6 cm (7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Martin Brimmer
Accession number76.428
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Farm buildings and trees are captured here with free and rhythmic strokes, concentrated between an open sky and foreground, in a composition whose unusual horizontal format and confident penmanship recall landscapes by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt, whom Millet admired.
ProvenanceMillet studio sale (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-11 May, 1875, lot 210); bought by Richard Hearn for Brimmer; Martin Brimmer (1829-1896, MA); acquired July 1876
Jean-François Millet
