Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys (painting)

The painting Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys or “‘Autumn Landscape with a flock of turkeys , was finished painting in 1873 by the painter Jean-Francois Millet ; with an original size of 81 x 99.1 cm; it is located in the Museum Metropolitan Art . New YorK

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Millet wrote to his patron Frédéric Hartmann the 18 as February as 1873 he had almost finished this painting to the art dealer Durand-Ruel : “It ‘s a mound, with a single tree almost leafless, and I’ve tried to put quite far in the image The figures are a woman seen from behind and some turkeys.

I have also tried to indicate the town in the background on a lower plane. The setting is near Barbizon , where Millet lived from 1849 until his death. The tower of the neighboring village of Chailly-en-Bière is visible in the distance.

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys, is an oil painting on canvas from the Barbizon school created by Jean-François Millet between 1872 and 1873. It is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . The image is in the public domain and is labeled Farm, Birds and Trees.

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Jean-Francois Millet . He was born on 4 of October of 1814 , in the village of Gruchy, municipality of Gréville-Hague , Normandy , but moved to Paris in 1839 .

He began in the art of drawing in his hometown but the death of his father would cause the temporary withdrawal from the artistic world until the Grouchy city council awarded the young creator a scholarship to study in Paris. He stands out for his scenes of peasants and farmers, where he wants to express the innocence of the peasant man as opposed to the degradation that accompanies the citizen immersed in industrial society. He received his academic teaching with Paul Dumouchel , and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg .

After 1840 he moved away from the official painting style and fell under the influence of Honoré Daumier, from whom he learned the sense of contrast of light and shadow, as well as the construction of the human body, with simplicity of volumes. In 1849 he arrived at Barbizon , entering the circle of the school that takes the name of this locality. From 1863 and under the influence of his friend Théodore Rousseau , he devoted himself more intensely to landscape. He settled in Barbizon, where he remained for the rest of his life; Although he did not belong to the famous Barbizon school of painters, he did embody, like them, the desire to escape urban life. On 20 January as as 1875Millet dies in this locality .

 

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