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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess sitting under the shadow
mk245
1870-1872
67x56cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Folk
mk245
1874
73.5x92.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Winter
mk245
1868-1874
78.7x97.8m
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Jean Francois Millet
House
mk245
37.5x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Girl in front of the haystack
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33.5x26.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Darkness
mk245
33x49cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The Path towards Wici
mk245
18x25cm
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Jean Francois Millet
The house Beside wici
mk245
15.5x20cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Sunset
mk245
9x15cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Two shepherden
mk245
30x37cm
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Jean Francois Millet
field
mk245
10.8x15.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Wheat field with tree
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Jean Francois Millet
Two shepherden
mk245
1852-1856
35x46cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Study of barther
mk245
35x43cm
1863
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Jean Francois Millet
Tonight
mk245
1867
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess sitting
mk245
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherdess
mk245
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Jean Francois Millet
Village beside pool
mk245
1875
29.5x43.5cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Harvest
mk245
1850
61x27cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Landscape of wici
mk245
watercolour
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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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