Jean-François Millet, October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875, was a French painter and printmaker born at Gruchy in Normandy. He studied in Cherbourg with Bon Dumouchel and Lucien-Théophile Langlois before entering the Paris studio of Paul Delaroche in 1837.
Millet exhibited at the Paris Salon and settled at Barbizon in 1849, where he became associated with the Barbizon school. He worked in painting, drawing, and printmaking and was known especially for scenes of rural labor and peasant life.
Millet remained at Barbizon until his death in 1875. His work is held by museums including the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery, London.
Jean-François Millet, October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875, was a French painter and printmaker born at Gruchy in Normandy. He studied in Cherbourg with Bon Dumouchel and Lucien-Théophile Langlois before entering the Paris studio of Paul Delaroche in 1837.
Millet exhibited at the Paris Salon and settled at Barbizon in 1849, where he became associated with the Barbizon school. He worked in painting, drawing, and printmaking and was known especially for scenes of rural labor and peasant life.
Millet remained at Barbizon until his death in 1875. His work is held by museums including the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery, London.
Jean-François Millet, 1856–1858
Salted paper print from paper negative, image 10.6 × 8.4 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portrait of a Man, c 1840–1841
Oil on canvas, 23.2 × 18.5 in
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Portrait of the Widow Roumy, 1842
Oil on canvas, 28.7 × 23.6 in
Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Portrait of a Naval Officer, c 1845
Oil on canvas, 31.9 × 25.6 in
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
The Faggot Gatherers, c 1850–1855
Oil on panel, 12 × 7.2 in
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
A Woman Baking Bread, 1854
Oil on canvas, 21.7 × 18.1 in
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The Well at Gruchy, 1854
Oil on canvas, 15.7 × 12.7 in
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Sheepfold, Moonlight, 1856–1860
Oil on panel, 17.8 × 24.9 in
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Death and the Woodcutter, 1858–1859
Oil on canvas, 30.3 × 39.3 in
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Shepherd Recalling the Flock, 1866–1872
Oil on panel, 4.5 × 6.1 in
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Spring, 1868–1873
Oil on canvas, 33.9 × 43.7 in
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
The Peasant Family, 1871–1872
Oil on canvas, 43.5 × 31.9 in
National Museum Cardiff, UK
Head of a Peasant Woman, Study, 1872
Oil on panel, 16.1 × 14.6 in
Petit Palais, Paris
The Tower of Chailly Near Barbizon, 1873
Oil on canvas, 36.1 × 46.5 in
The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Haystacks: Autumn, c 1874
Oil on canvas, 33.5 × 43.4 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Manor Farm Cousin in Gréville, 1854
Watercolor on paper, 8.9 × 11.1 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Large Shepherdess, 1862
Etching on laid paper, image 12.6 × 9.4 in
Brooklyn Museum
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