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French painter (1814–1875) known as one of the founders of the Barbizon school. ALS in French, signed “J. F. Millet,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, June 29, 1867. Addressed from Vichy, France, an untranslated handwritten letter to his children. In fine condition.
‘During the later half of the 1860s – in 1866, 1867, and 1868 – Millet made three, month-long sojourns to the mineral spas at Vichy with his ailing wife, Catherine Lemaire. While the first two trips were extraordinarily productive, the artist's own poor health made the third notably less fruitful. Among Millet's approximately two hundred drawings of the countryside surrounding Vichy are a number of studies in graphite or pen and ink, accented with watercolor. Many of the sketches were executed outdoors in small notebooks on the artist's long walks and carriage rides…Millet added color notations in graphite to remind him of the tones of the landscape. Later, he would add washes to the sheet in his hotel room, or use these informal sketches as the basis for more finished watercolors both while in Vichy and once he returned home to Barbizon.’
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