Cottages — About This Work
Jean-François Millet, 1870–71
About the Work
Low cottages sit among trees in a drawing of restrained rural architecture. Millet's pen carries the smaller structural details, while the surrounding graphite gives the sheet another, softer register of description.
Brown ink produces a warm, limited tonal language. The cottages are approached through their outlines and their relation to the land around them, making the buildings part of a lived setting rather than isolated architectural specimens.
The page leaves room for the eye to travel between roofs, trees and open intervals. Its quiet subject rewards attention to these connections, preserving the drawing's modest physical scale and its unforced sense of place.
The Work
Artist: Jean-François Millet
Title: Cottages
Date: 1870–71
Medium: Pen and brown ink and graphite
Recorded dimensions: 17.3 × 11.8 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1974.233
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 30 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams. 1974.233.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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