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Jean Francois Millet
The Sower
mk156
1850
Oil on canvas
101.6x85.6cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Angelus
mk156
c.1858
Oil on canvas
55.5x66cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant Women Carrying Firewood
mk159
c.1858
Oil on canvas
37.5x29.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The man with the Cut
MK169
1852-62
oil Paint on cloth
81x100cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Winnower
mk170
1847-1848
Oil on canvas
100.5x71cm
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Jean Francois Millet
People go to work
mk191
1851
Oil on canvas
55.5x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Geese
mk191
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Detail of People go to work
mk191
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Spring,haymow
mk191
1868-1874
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Jean Francois Millet
Spring,haymow
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Jean Francois Millet
Detail of Spring,haymow
mk191
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
The Peasant Family
mk192
1871-72
43x32in
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Jean Francois Millet
Farm at Gruchy
mk192
1854
21x2in
Smith College Museum of Art.
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Jean Francois Millet
End of the Hamlet of Gruchy
mk192
1866
32x39in
Museum of Fine Arts
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Jean Francois Millet
Fishing Boat
mk192
1871
24.7x33cm
Museum of fine arts
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Jean Francois Millet
The Road Mender
mk221
1854
Crayon
41.3x30.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Self-Portrait
mk245
56.2x45.6cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Portrait of Aupuli
mk245
184-1842
Oil on canvas
73x60.3cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Self-Portrait
mk245
Oil on canvas
73x60cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Portrait of Fierden
mk245
1841
73x60.6cm
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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