JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON) - photo 1
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON) - photo 2
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON) - photo 3

JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON)

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€ 289 800
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22.03.2023 15:00UTC +02:00
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ID 922538
Lot 82 | JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON)
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET (GRUCHY 1814-1875 BARBIZON)

Paysage rural avec vache et moutons : la ferme du Lieu-Bailly

signé ‘J.F.Millet’ (en bas à droite)

fusain, pastel et traces d'aquarelle sur papier beige

39,5 x 52 cm (15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Alfred Sensier, Paris.

Marguerite Sensier, Paris, 1877, puis par descendance à son père.

Leroy Ireland, Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie.

William Stephen Serri, Merchantville, New Jersey; vente Christie’s New York, 11 Octobre 1979, lot 41 (avec le titre La Ferme du Lieu-Bailly).

Avec Gallery Lida, Tokyo.

Rindoko Museum, Tochigi, Japon.

Collection privée, Japon, 2020.



Exhibited

Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Kofu, Yamanashi Museum, Jean-François Millet, 1991, n° 66, ill.



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Post lot text

JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET, A RURAL LANDSCAPE WITH COWS AND SHEEP, CHARCOAL, PASTEL AND WATERCOLOUR TRACES ON BUFF PAPER

It was in Jean-François Millet’s later career that he turned to compositions of rural landscapes without figures. These views were sentimental and partly biographical, as they had formed the backdrop to his own life and his childhood growing up in Normandy. Images such as the present lot would have been a reminder to Parisian audiences that this heartland of rural life existed, alongside the increasingly developing urban landscape.
Finished drawings became an important aspect of the artist’s practice during the mid-1850s, as Millet increasingly relied on the income to support his family. These drawings quickly caught the attention of private collectors and by 1865, an important patron, Émile Gavet began commissioning drawings, which would become a collection of ninety sheets.
The present lot showcases the artist’s skill as a draughtsman. The accuracy of the anatomy of the animals, as well as the proportions of the landscape, are seemingly effortlessly sketched. What is particularly unusual are the variety of colours employed, such as the luscious greens and the warm tonalities of the animals’ coats. The artist had turned away from the use of coloured pastels in the mid-1840s, in the pursuit of drawings in black crayon heightened with white. This return to full colour was perhaps due to the shift in subject matter from a focus on figures to a focus on the natural landscape, where colour is a necessity in providing the depth of field and the narrative.
We are grateful to Dr Alexandra Murphy for confirming the attribution to Millet in the basis of a photograph.

Fig. 1 J.-F. Millet, Farm near Gréville, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie.
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