The Barbizon School
prints & drawings
prints & drawings
- Chaigneau, Mouton
- Chaigneau, Studies of Sheep
- Chaigneau, Le Petit Troupeau
- Chaigneau, Femme Gardant
- Corot, Souvenir de Toscane
- Corot, Souvenir de Toscane
- Corot, Souvenir de la Villa
- Daubigny, Bord de la Mer
- Daubigny, L'Orage
- Daubigny, Le Grand Parc
- Daubigny, Le Cochon
- Daubigny, Lever de Lune
- Daubigny, Lever de Lune
- Daubigny, Le Mousse à la Pêche
- Daubigny, Les Vendanges
- Diaz, Les Folles Amoureuses
- Dupré, Fallen Tree in a Forest
- Français, Un Chemin
- Grenaud, Portrait of Corot
- Jacque, A Covered Wagon
- Jacque, Lisière du Bois
- Jacque, Frontispiece Design
- Jacque, Village au Bord
- Jacque, Porte d'Auberge
- Jacque, La Souricière
- Laurens, Clairière
- Lavieille, Les Travaux
- Lavieille, The Reaper
- Lazerges, The Sower
- Leroy, Le Bas Bréau
- Millet, Snails
- Millet, La Planche aux Croquis
- Millet, La Bouillie
- Millet, Feeding the Chickens
- Millet, Zoomorphic Rocks
- Rousseau, Route dans la Forêt
- Rousseau, Fête de Village
- Rousseau, In the Savoie
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35. Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) Zoomorphic Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau |
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Zoomorphic Rocks in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Black chalk, ca.1867, 232 x 316 mm. Provenance: artist's estate (Lugt 1460).
A study of natural rock forms, in black chalk on laid paper, signed with the artist's estate stamp in purple; bits of old blue paper at the bottom edge of the sheet. Millet rarely drew his subjects from Fontainebleau Forest itself, preferring scenes of peasant and animal life on its outskirts. What attracted him here was the animal-like shapes of the huge rocks, in this instance like a steer's head and body lying atop other rocks. Rocky outcrops abound in Fontainebleau, though seldom as graphically zoomorphic as here. No similar drawing appears in the extensive collection of Millet's work in the Louvre.
