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Jean Francois Millet
Woman carry the water
mk245
1856-1862
Oil on canvas
100x80cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Sawyer
mk245
1850-1852
Oil on canvas
57x81cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Sheep
mk245
1862
59.7x70cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
The peasant in front of barrel
mk245
1848-1852
46.5x39cm
Oil oncanvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
1850-1855
32.5x25cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Woman feeding the children
mk245
1860
74x60cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Woman feeding the children
mk245
1861
114x99cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Mother and child
mk245
1855-1857
29x20.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Graft
mk245
81x100cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Still life with shallot
mk245
75x61cm
1860-1864
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant
mk245
16.3x13.3cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Beggar
mk245
38.5x44.6cm
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Jean Francois Millet
First step
mk245
29.5x36cm
1858
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Jean Francois Millet
The woman weaving the sweater
mk245
c.1855
46x39cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
1863-1864
81x101cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
The Girl
mk245
1866-1867
Oil on canvas
66x82.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Girl
mk245
1864-1865
33x18.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Sleeping Shepherdess
mk245
38x28.7cm
1860
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant hackle wool
mk245
1863
89.5x73.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant
mk245
1863
80x99cm
Oil on canvas
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| Jean Francois Millet
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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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