Famous Village Paintings

Cottages, mills and village lanes, the small places painters went to escape the city.

82 paintings, with works by Jean-François Millet, Meindert Hobbema, Claude Monet and Charles-François Daubigny. Most often they suit the living room, guest room and bedroom.

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Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Young Man and Woman in an Inn, Frans Hals, 1623, oil on canvas

Frans Hals Young Man and Woman in an Inn, 1623 The Met

Large English country landscape painting, farmers with horses, green trees.

John Constable Stoke-by-Nayland, 1836 Art Institute of Chicago

Jalais Hill, Pontoise, Camille Pissarro, 1867, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Jalais Hill, Pontoise, 1867 The Met

Young Ladies of the Village, Gustave Courbet, 1851–52, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet Young Ladies of the Village, 1851–52 The Met

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), Thomas Gainsborough, 1787, oil on canvas

Thomas Gainsborough Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), 1787 The Met

Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center.

Édouard Vuillard Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods, 1899 Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown.

Meindert Hobbema The Watermill with the Great Red Roof, c. 1665 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Horace Pippin Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37 Art Institute of Chicago

A lone wheat stack, in shadow, rests on a field with traces of snow, the snow taking on reflected shades of pink, yellow, orange, and blue from the unseen setting sun. A line of pale yellow illuminates the horizon above the hills beyond.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat (Thaw, Sunset), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

A snowy landscape in cool tones featuring a prominent, snow-dusted haystack in reddish brown in front of a row of red-brown trees and low, blue mountains, all beheath a pink-gray strip of sky.

Claude Monet Stack of Wheat, 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields, Jean-François Millet, 1864, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields, 1864 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting mostly in soft yellow, green, purple, blue, and pink of two wheatstacks, the right nearer than the left, in a country landscape at sunset.

Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

The Keeper of the Flock, Jean-François Millet, 1871–74, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet The Keeper of the Flock, 1871–74 Art Institute of Chicago

Two haystacks, dusted with snow, in a hazy, snow-covered field at sunset. The snow is highlighted in purple tones, the sky a yellow and orange gradient.

Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890–91 Art Institute of Chicago

Haymaking at Éragny, Camille Pissarro, 1892, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Haymaking at Éragny, 1892 Art Institute of Chicago

View of Lormes, Camille Corot, early 1840s, oil on canvas

Camille Corot View of Lormes, early 1840s The Met

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, Camille Pissarro, 1874, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1874 The Met

Sparrow Hall, Winslow Homer, c. 1881-1882, oil on canvas

Winslow Homer Sparrow Hall, c. 1881-1882 National Gallery of Art

Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris, Henri Rousseau, c. 1893/95, oil on canvas

Henri Rousseau Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris, c. 1893/95 Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Chickens, Jean-François Millet, 1846-48, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet Woman Feeding Chickens, 1846-48 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting in tones of gray and brown, with some green and blue, of a woman digging with a garden tool before a structure with a thatched roof that descends almost to the ground. Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds.

Vincent van Gogh A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage, c. 1885 Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape with Cottages, John Constable, 1809–10, oil on canvas

John Constable Landscape with Cottages, 1809–10 Art Institute of Chicago

Souvenir of Italy, Camille Corot, 1855–60, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Souvenir of Italy, 1855–60 Art Institute of Chicago

The Woodchopper, Jean-François Millet, c. 1858–66, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet The Woodchopper, c. 1858–66 Art Institute of Chicago

Saddle Horse in Farm Yard, Winslow Homer, ca. 1870–75, oil on wood

Winslow Homer Saddle Horse in Farm Yard, ca. 1870–75 The Met

The Little Shepherdess, Jean-François Millet, 1868–72, oil on panel

Jean-François Millet The Little Shepherdess, 1868–72 Art Institute of Chicago

The Sheepshearers, Jean-François Millet, c. 1857–61, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet The Sheepshearers, c. 1857–61 Art Institute of Chicago

A Village Street: Dardagny, Camille Corot, 1852, 1857, or 1863, oil on canvas

Camille Corot A Village Street: Dardagny, 1852, 1857, or 1863 The Met

Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras, Camille Corot, 1871, oil on fabric

Camille Corot Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras, 1871 Cleveland Museum of Art

Farm near Duivendrecht, Piet Mondrian, c. 1916, oil on canvas

Piet Mondrian Farm near Duivendrecht, c. 1916 Art Institute of Chicago

Hamlet and His Mother, Eugène Delacroix, 1849, oil on canvas

Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and His Mother, 1849 The Met

A Farm in Brittany, Paul Gauguin, ca. 1894, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin A Farm in Brittany, ca. 1894 The Met

Woman with a Rake, Jean-François Millet, probably 1856–57, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet Woman with a Rake, probably 1856–57 The Met

Two Young Peasant Women, Camille Pissarro, 1891–92, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Two Young Peasant Women, 1891–92 The Met

A windmill stands on a promontory cutting into a waterway under a partially stormy sky in this square landcape painting.

Rembrandt van Rijn The Mill, 1645/1648 National Gallery of Art

Seven people with cream-white skin crowd together, sitting at or standing among tables in an interior space in this vertical painting. The composition is dominated by shades of blue and pale green.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette, 1892 National Gallery of Art

A man and woman standing with their backs to us face a room where others stand or pose in this vertical painting.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge, 1892 National Gallery of Art

A white path and gray stone wall wind through ochre and harvest-yellow fields beneath a brilliant, turquoise sky in this stylized, horizontal landscape painting. The scene is created with long, visible brushstrokes of vivid color.

Vincent van Gogh Farmhouse in Provence, 1888 National Gallery of Art

A woman with light skin sits facing us across a marble-topped table in a café in this vertical painting. Her body is angled slightly to our right, and she rests her right elbow, on our left, on the table.

Édouard Manet Plum Brandy, c. 1877 National Gallery of Art

This is a painting of an outdoor scene with a group of people gathered in front of a blue-gray wooden building with a dark door and two windows. Sunflowers grow on either side of the entrance, stretching up to the windows.

Winslow Homer Sketch of a Cottage Yard, c. 1876 National Gallery of Art

A bearded man with light skin, wearing a black costume and holding a plumed hat, stands in front of mottled brown background in this vertical portrait painting.

Édouard Manet The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet), 1866 National Gallery of Art

Mill of Pont Maupuit, Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900, oil on canvas

Armand Guillaumin Mill of Pont Maupuit, c. 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

The Old Mill, George Inness, 1849, oil on canvas

George Inness The Old Mill, 1849 Art Institute of Chicago

Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman, Meindert Hobbema, 1663, oil on canvas

Meindert Hobbema Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman, 1663 Art Institute of Chicago

On the Road, Jules Dupré, 1856, oil on canvas

Jules Dupré On the Road, 1856 Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape with a Windmill, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1646, oil on wood

Jacob van Ruisdael Landscape with a Windmill, 1646 Cleveland Museum of Art

Long Island Farmhouses, William Sidney Mount, 1862–63, oil on canvas

William Sidney Mount Long Island Farmhouses, 1862–63 The Met

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