Description
Village roofs and trees appear beyond a low field beneath a cloudy, textured sky in Landscape, an etching after Millet. The arrangement gives the settlement a wider setting without turning any one building into an isolated subject. The landscape invites looking across ground, inhabited forms and sky, where the different areas belong to one continuous prospect.
The Metropolitan Museum credits Alfred Taïée with engraving the image after Jean-François Millet. The distinction between source design and engraver preserves the work’s actual attribution rather than presenting the printed surface as Millet’s own etching. The image joins one artist’s landscape composition with another’s graphic translation, making the meeting of place and medium part of its interest.
Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Jean-François Millet collection.
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