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Three cottages with a background of trees

  • Description

    The technique Jean-François Millet employs here of using closely hatched lines to denote both form and tone is similar to the academic style taught to Xu Bing in his youth, and which is apparent in his early drawings (see LI2007.12).

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › France › Seine-et-Marne › Barbizon (place of creation)
    Europe › France › Seine-et-Marne › Barbizon (subject)
    Date
    c. 1850 - 1852
    Artist/maker
    Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
    Material and technique
    black chalk on paper
    Dimensions
    sheet 17.6 x 26.6 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    inorganic › stone › limestone › chalk
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by J. E. Bullard, 1961.
    Accession no.
    WA1961.53.8

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 21 on p. 56, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 56 fig. 21

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