"Crossroads of the Thorn, Forest of Fontainebleau".
Drawing signed in pencil and ink, stamp of the workshop Lugt no. 1460".
9 x 13 cm
Provenance: Sotheby's, 19/11/2011, n° 158, reproduced
Installed in Barbizon since 1849, Millet is one of the founders of this artistic movement which notably influenced the artists who initiated the Impressionist movement. A realist painter, he is particularly famous for his rural scenes and peasantry. This drawing represents a scene on the edge of a forest where, in the absence of human figures, nature dominates. It could be a preparatory sketch for the painting Dead Birch, Crossroads of the Thorn, Forest of Fontainebleau, done in 1866-1867 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon).
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