In the early 1920s, Jean-Charles Millet was struggling to break into the Parisian art scene. The shadow of his grandfather, Jean-François Millet, weighed heavy. The elder artist’s unflattering ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Jean-François Millet I was a French Old Masters painter who was born in 1642. How ...

Jean-François Millet’s monumental “Man With a Hoe” (1860-62) has enjoyed popular acclaim as an empathetic image of hardscrabble labor in a rugged, agrarian landscape. Acquired in 1985 by the J. Paul ...

Jean-François Millet, "The Wood Sawyers" (1850–52), oil on canvas; Victoria and Albert Museum, London (© V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London) LONDON — How best to paint the scorned, the ...

ST. LOUIS — Jean-François Millet was a peasant, but not like the peasants he painted. His family owned land, a house and a stable and was relatively prosperous, even as industrialization and other ...

More than many artists, Jean-François Millet (1814–75) has had his reputation made by others. Responses to his work from both admirers and detractors offer a range of impressions, preventing a ...

A masterpiece by one of the world’s most intriguing artists is making a cameo appearance at the Museum of Fine Arts. While in town it will be united with its source of inspiration. Starting Tuesday, ...

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IN the Louvre there are only two unimportant works by Jean François Millet : a small landscape of the church of Gréville. and a study of some bathers, painted while the artist was still seeking his ...

THE recent death of Jean François Millet has suggested the following reminiscences of a period when the writer enjoyed somewhat exceptional opportunities of intercourse with the distinguished French ...