Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy

Museum record 136977: Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy by Jean François Millet. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Famous as a painter of rural life, in the late 1860s Millet focused on the spa town of Vichy in south central France, where his ailing wife sought a cure in thermal springs. This striking ink drawing may depict Vichy or Millet’s home of Gruchy, Normandy, where he stayed in 1870–71, during the Franco-Prussian War. Here the landscape—with an unusually raised horizon line—dominates rural life. MyArtTaste includes museum record 136977 as a recognizable discovery anchor, using the institution's official open-…