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Jean Francois Millet
Pick up wheat
mk245
54.5x65cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Pack the hay
mk245
1850-1855
38x46cm
oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Go to field
mk245
1850-1851
Oil on canvas
5.5x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The smoking have a break
mk245
1858
36x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant shove milk
mk245
1854-1860
60x73cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant confect the buck
mk245
c.1855
44x33cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant
mk245
1859
73x93cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Woman toast bread
mk245
55x46cm
c.1855
oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
The woman Harrow hay
mk245
1855-1860
39.7x34.3cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Sitting Shepherdess
mk245
1852
46.3x38cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
39.7x28cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
37.5x28cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant washing the clothes
mk245
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant get the water
mk245
1857-1860
44.7x31.9
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Jean Francois Millet
Washerwoman
mk245
c.1855
52x42cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Pick up Spike
mk245
c.1855
38x29.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess sewing the sweater
mk245
1858-1860
39x29.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
30.5x22.9cm
Oil on canvas
1854-1856
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Jean Francois Millet
Weave class
mk245
1853
33x29.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Weave class
mk245
1858-1860
41.5x32cm
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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