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Jean Francois Millet
Sewing under the light
mk245
1871
100.7x82cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Field with tow countrywoman
mk245
1870
44x51cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
The field with house
mk245
1871-1870
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Jean Francois Millet
Spring
mk245
1868-1873
86x111cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Night
mk245
1855-1867
65x81cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Autumn
mk245
1868-1874
85x110cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Autumn
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Jean Francois Millet
Countrywoman
mk245
1868-1870
97.5x60cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Countrywoman
mk245
1868-1870
96x60cm
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Jean Francois Millet
countrywoman
mk245
1855
Pencil
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Jean Francois Millet
Countrywoman
mk245
1855-1856
17.8x12cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant family
mk245
1870-1872
110x80.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Suburb
mk245
1871-1872
73x93cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Sailboat
mk245
1871
25x33cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Storm
mk245
1871-1873
90x117cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Daisy
mk245
1871-1874
68x83cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Church
mk245
1871-1874
60x73.5cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
Shepherden in the field
mk245
1872-1874
29.5x38cm
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Jean Francois Millet
Peasant
mk245
1872-1873
81x99cm
Oil on canvas
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Jean Francois Millet
village
mk245
1854-1873
73.2x92.4cm
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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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