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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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Jean Francois Millet Peasant confect the buck oil painting artist


Jean Francois Millet Peasant confect the buck oil painting artist

Peasant confect the buck
Painting ID::  55803
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mk245 c.1855 44x33cm Oil on canvas

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Jean Francois Millet Peasant oil painting artist


Jean Francois Millet Peasant oil painting artist

Peasant
Painting ID::  55804
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mk245 1859 73x93cm Oil on canvas

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Jean Francois Millet Woman toast bread oil painting artist


Jean Francois Millet Woman toast bread oil painting artist

Woman toast bread
Painting ID::  55805
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mk245 55x46cm c.1855 oil on canvas

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Jean Francois Millet The woman Harrow hay oil painting artist


Jean Francois Millet The woman Harrow hay oil painting artist

The woman Harrow hay
Painting ID::  55806
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mk245 1855-1860 39.7x34.3cm Oil on canvas

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Jean Francois Millet Sitting Shepherdess oil painting artist


Jean Francois Millet Sitting Shepherdess oil painting artist

Sitting Shepherdess
Painting ID::  55807
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mk245 1852 46.3x38cm Oil on canvas

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