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Jean Francois Millet
Spring
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Orsay Museum
1868-1873
France
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Jean Francois Millet
Woman sewing by lamplight
mk76
Painted in 1870-72
Oil on canvas
39 5/8x32 1/4in
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Jean Francois Millet
The Gleaners
mk87
1857
Oil on canvas
83.5x111cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean Francois Millet
The Evening Prayer
mk87
c.1858/59
Oil on canvas
55.5x66cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant Women Carrying Faggots
mk91
ca.1858
Oil on canvas
37.5x29.5
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Jean Francois Millet
Les Glaneuses
mk94
1857
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Jean Francois Millet
The Winnower
mk96
1848
101x71cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Going to work
mk96
1850-1851
56x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Angelus
mk96
1857-1859
55x66cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Death and the woodcutter
mk96
1859
77x100cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Spring
mk93
1868-1873
86x111cm
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Jean Francois Millet
La Grande Jatte
mk96
1884-1886
205.5x305cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Bathing at Asnieres
mk96
1883-1884
200.5x310cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Side-Show
mk96
1887-1888
101x150cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Le Chahut
mk96
1889-1890
170x140.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Young woman powdering herself
mk96
1889-1890
94.2x79.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
La Femiere
mk29
c.1868-70
Pastel on blue gray wove paper
39.4x52.7cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Woman Sewing by Lamplight
mk29
1870-72
Oil on canvas
100.7x81.9cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Sower
mk29
Pastel on tan wove paper
30.8x24.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant Grafting a Tree
mk141
1855
Oil on canvas
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1814-1875
French
Jean Francois Millet Galleries
Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aim??e-Henriette-Adelaide Henry Millet, members of the peasant community in the village of Gruchy, in Gr??ville-Hague (Normandy). Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel. By 1835 he was studying full-time with Lucien-Th??ophile Langlois, a pupil of Baron Gros, in Cherbourg. A stipend provided by Langlois and others enabled Millet to move to Paris in 1837, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Paul Delaroche. In 1839 his scholarship was terminated, and his first submission to the Salon was rejected.
After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter. However, the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono, and they moved to Paris. After rejections at the Salon of 1843 and Pauline's death by consumption, Millet returned again to Cherbourg. In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853; they would have nine children, and remain together for the rest of Millet's life. In Le Havre he painted portraits and small genre pieces for several months, before moving back to Paris.
It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Theodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school; Honor?? Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer. In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.
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