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	Jean-François Millet
		But though a family of rustics, the Millets were far removed from rusticity of manners: they were serious folks, profoundly pious, a strange stock of Catholic Puritans whose stern sentiments of religion, handed down from generation to generation, gave them something like an aristocratic character; they were incapable of mean ideas.
		Millet, with his large family (he had four sons and five daughters), knew what it was to want for bread, for firewood, for the most indispensable necessities of life.
		Millet is quite the opposite of a Utopian or an insurgent.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/millet,jean-francois.html (2317 words)

	EUROPEANPAINTINGS.COM - JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Millet was indeed the leading figure painter among the Barbizon artists, but almost from his arrival in the tiny village he drew the surrounding fields and forests.
		Although Millet's paintings and pastels of rain-drenched kitchen gardens or twilight dissolving the vast Chailly plain were not widely seen until a series of exhibitions after his death, these challenging landscapes had a profound impact on the rising young artists who formed the Impressionist group.
		Millet sent only three landscape paintings to the Salon, and his superb achievement as a landscapist was not recognized until his watercolor and pen and ink drawings of Vichy were revealed in the studio sale following his death and a large number of his pastels were shown in a benefit exhibition/sale later the same year.
	www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/frlscape/miletbio.htm (554 words)

	Jean Millet
		Jean Francois Millet was born into a family of peasant farmers near Cherbourg.
		Criticized for allowing socialist concerns to infiltrate his art, Millet stated that it was "the human side" of life that he wished to portray, In 1849 he moved to Barbizon where he remained for the rest of his life, painting labourers going about their daily business.
		Depicting his human figures with a classically sculptural simplicity, Millet's concern was to show the pair in harmony with their peaceful and unchanging rural existence.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/M/millet.html (240 words)

	MyStudios -Artist Biographies Sponsored by Barewalls
		Jean Francois Millet was born on a farm near Cherbourg and never forgot that he had spent his boyhood working in his father's fields.
		During the Franco-Prussian War, Millet moved back to Cherbourg, where he painted some seascapes, and in the final years of life was commissioned by the French government to do a set of decorative panels of The Four Seasons for the Pantheon.
		Millet's realistic approach to peasant subjects had an important influence upon later nineteenth-century artists and very particularly upon van Gogh.
	www.mystudios.com /bios/Jean_Francois_Millet.html (348 words)

	NCAW Winter 03 \| Maura Coughlin on Millet's Milkmaids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Millet's own letters and pronouncements on his art invite a reading in which his rural origin functions as an index to the authenticity and personal resonance of his images, which, in turn, authenticate the genius and singularity of the peasant-painter Millet.
		Millet's reference to Pieter Bruegel both connects his image to a venerable pictorial tradition that showed peasants' seasonal labor and expresses personal longings for a provincial motherland, the feminine space of unchanging tradition, the pastoral space of the anti-modern.
		Millet corroborates this sentiment in a letter of 1866 to Sensier, writing that the peasants of the Vichy region "are much more peasants than at Barbizon; they have that good, stupid kind of awkwardness which does not remind one in the least of the neighborhood of fashionable baths." Sensier/ de Kay, p.
	19thc-artworldwide.org /winter_03/articles/coug.html (5042 words)

	Vincent van Gogh: Influences
		Millet was a painter and etcher of the Barbizon school and his career runs from the early to mid-1800s.
		Millet's influence on Van Gogh during the early stages of his career are clear.
		The affect of Millet upon Van Gogh would diminish, however, when he joined Theo in Paris and began to socialize with the members of the art community--Gauguin, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc. In 1886-87 Vincent's palette came to life and his choice of subject moved from the field to the factory, from the weaver to the cafe.
	www.vggallery.com /influences/millet/main.htm (760 words)

	ARTBURST.com - Jean Millet Art And Biography
		Jean-Francois Millet was born on October 4, 1814, in Gruchy, a tiny hamlet linked to Greville-Hague, the next village 9 kilometers west from Cherbourg.
		Millet was not one of those who could live a quiet and monotonous single life on their own.
		When Millet died in 1875, he was buried at Barbizon, next to Théodore Rousseau.
	www.artburst.com /johnmillet (151 words)

	Jean Francois Millet (Francisque) - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Twelve of his most important landscapes, which remained in the palace of the Tuileries, were destroyed by fire; and though many of his pieces may still be found catalogued in Continental and English collections, others in great number remain unknown and unacknowledged.
		His son Jean Francois Millet, the younger (1666-1723), also called Francisque, was born in Paris, and was made a member of the Academy of Painting in 1709.
		He is not quite so independent in his art as his father; but he had clever friends, and when he wanted figures to his landscapes, he consulted Watteau, and other followers of the "court shepherdess" school.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Jean_Francois_Millet_(Francisque) (387 words)

	Jean Francois Millet biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The whole family seems, indeed, to have worn a character of austerity and dignity, and when Millet's father finally decided to test the vocation of his son as an artist, it was with a gravity and authority which recalls the patriarchal households of Calvinist France.
		In a curious letter written to M. Sensier at this date (1850) Millet expressed his resolve to break once and for all with mythological and undraped subjects, and the names of the principal works painted subsequently will show how steadfastly this resolution was kept.
		The dresses worn by his figures are not clothes, but drapery through which the forms and movements of the body are strongly felt, and their contour shows a grand breadth of line which strikes the eye at once.
	www.artsender.com /artists/Millet_Jean_Francois.htm (924 words)

	Jean-Francois Millet
		Jean-Francois Millet, like Courbet, attempted to show his political leanings through the subjects and style of his paintings by portraying everyday peasants in idyllic settings as a way to attack the upper classes while dignifying the working class.
		Millet, born in 1841, grew up in the rural countryside of France.
		However, unlike Courbet, Millet prefered to paint his subjects with an idyllic gloss in order to criticise the bourgeoisie.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/millet.html (288 words)

	BBC - Painting the Weather - Millet
		But Millet’s often uncompromising illustrations of rural poverty were severely criticised and remain among the starkest depictions of people brutalised by hard labour.
		Although Millet lived in the countryside and only depicted rural subjects all his major pictures were exhibited at the salon in Paris.
		Millet had nine children with his lifelong companion Catherine, but only married her with a religious ceremony on his deathbed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /paintingtheweather/csv/artist/millet.shtml (177 words)

	Millet - MSN Encarta
		Jean François Millet (1814-1875), French genre and landscape painter, born in Gruchy.
		After 12 years in Paris and Normandy (Normandie), Millet joined the Barbizon School of landscape artists.
		Although Millet did not intend his work to be regarded as social protest, the subjects he chose led inevitably to such interpretation.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556185 (134 words)

	Jean-François Millet (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born to modestly successful Norman peasants, Millet began studying art in Cherbourg at eighteen.
		Millet portrayed the gravity, hardship, and dignity of common agricultural laborers, but, despite being labeled a "Socialist revolutionary," his viewpoint was less political than fatalistic.
		After decades of struggle, he was awarded a medal at the 1867 Exposition Universelle and received the Légion d'Honneur in 1868.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a588-1.html (210 words)

	Jean-François Millet: Drawings - Van Gogh Museum - Absolutearts.com
		Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most respected and influential artists of the 19th century.
		Millet executed two types of drawings during his sojourn in Barbizon: on the one hand, quick sketches made en plein air or in the studio as preparatory studies for more ambitious works on canvas; on the other, independent sheets which he sold at low prices to less-wealthy collectors.
		Although Millet has here sought merely to depict the farmers everyday life as realistically as possible, this painting, too, was misunderstood by the critics.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/1999/10/23/25598.html (620 words)

	Painting by Jean-Francois Millet
		Though his paintings were judged in political terms, Millet declared that he was neither a socialist nor an agitator.
		A religious fatalist, Millet believed that man was condemned to bear his burdens.
		In this drawing, Millet concentrated on the man, showing his face as less brutish, less exhausted, and more defined than in the finished painting.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/markham/millet.htm (418 words)

	Jean-Francois Millet Exhibition, Masterworks Fine Art
		Hostile critics accused him of being a socialist, but Millet's concerns were aesthetic rather than political and he said his desire was 'to make the trivial serve to express the sublime'.
		Millet passed much of his life in poverty, but his work began to bring him success in the 1860s and The Angelus (Musee d' Orsay, 1859) became perhaps the most widely reproduced painting of the 19th century.
		Van Gogh and Camille Pissarro were among those who admired Millet's work, He has long been particularly popular in the USA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has an outstanstanding collection of his work.
	www.masterworksfineart.com /inventory/millet.htm (403 words)

	The Clark - Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This book examines Millet’s technical and creative achievement, focusing on his rarely seen pastels, watercolors, and drawings, considering them as independent works of art, as procedural steps toward paintings, and as important elements in his finished pictures.
		The authors explore the ways that Millet reinvented his art and reshaped the course of nineteenth-century painting in the process.
		This book is the catalogue for an exhibition that opened at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in June 1999, and traveled to the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
	www.clarkart.edu /museum_programs/publications_detail.cfm?ID=18 (192 words)

	MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS ... - Online Information article about MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS ... (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		character of austerity and dignity, and when Millet's father finally decided to test the vocation of his son as an artist, it was with a gravity and authority which recalls the patriarchal households of Calvinist See also:
		Grand Prix came on, Delaroche gave Millet to understand that he intended to secure the nomination of another, and thereupon Millet withdrew himself, and with his friend Marolle started in a little studio in the See also:
		The drawing of this subject is reproduced in Souvenirs de Barbizon, a pamphlet in which M. Piedagnel has recorded a visit paid to Millet in 1864.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org.cob-web.org:8888 /MIC_MOL/MILLET_JEAN_FRANCOIS_18141875_.html (2028 words)

	Jean-francois Millet (1814 - 1875) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Critics were unsettled by the unromantic depictions of rural life, and in the 1850’s, the French government became paranoid of the political and socialist messages his paintings might suggest.
		Charles Meryon and Jean-François Millet: Etchings of Urban and rural 19th-Century France
		Examples of their work and that of many artists on both sides of the English Channel such as Charles Meryon, Edouard Manet, Jean François Millet, and Frank Brangwyn are part of this exhibition of more than 120 prints from the DIA collection.
	wwar.com /masters/m/millet-jean-francois.html (1633 words)

	Jean-François Millet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague (Normandy), Millet moved to Paris in 1838.
		Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800,000 gold francs.
		Salvador Dalí was fascinated by this work, and wrote an analysis of it, The Tragic Myth of The Angelus of Millet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet (463 words)

	The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet
		Jean Francois Millet (zhahn frahn SWAH mee LEH) was born to peasant parents in France near Cherbourg.
		In the painting we see the man and his wife stopping for devotion after hearing the bell from the church in the distance.
		Another famous painting by Millet is The Gleaners which depicts peasants picking up grain left by the harvesters.
	www.gardenofpraise.com /art21.htm (514 words)

	Jean Francois Millet [1814-1875] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		millet’s art, rooted in the normandy of his childhood as well as in barbizon, is also indebted to the bible and past masters.
		'Charles Meryon and Jean-Francois Millet: Etchings of Urban and Rural 19Th-Century France'
		"Badende MÃÂ¤dchen" von Jean-FranÃÂ§ois Millet als Kunstdrucke auf...
	www.artfact.com /features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=26266 (410 words)

	Millet, Jean Francois, 1814-75, French painter. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a painter of melancholy scenes of peasant labor, he has been considered a social realist.
		Millet’s paintings are noted for their power and simplicity of drawing.
		See M. Langlois, The Art and Life of Jean-François Millet (1980).
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/Millet-J.html (178 words)

	19c Jean François Millet Oil Painting Farm Girl
		Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was born in the Norman town of Greville, the son of a farmer.
		In 1838, Millet moved to Paris and studied with Paul Delaroche.
		In 1869, his painting Woman Feeding Her Child was exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles -- and is believed to be the first exhibition of his work in a public museum.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,19c-jean-millet,147256.html (674 words)

	Jean Francois Millet, French Painter
		The son of a farmer in Gréville, Normandy, Millet did not leave home to study painting in Cherbourg until he was 20 years of age.
		Fighting against great odds, and suffering a long period of extreme hardship, Millet exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1840, and married two years later.
		During this period his main influences were Poussin and Eustache Le Sueur, and the type of work he produced consisted predominantly of mythological subjects or portraiture, at which he was especially adept.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Art/Millet/Millet.shtml (865 words)

	The Millet Family
		According to Harold J. Jacobs, there were two Jean Millets in LA during this time period.
		The other Jean was a gunsmith, born in New Orleans, parents from Paris, married to Marian FREDERICK.
		Leonie Millet (21 Jun 1892-30 Sep 1972) m.
	www.angelfire.com /la/ancestors/Millet.html (2349 words)

	Jean-Francois Millet Online
		Not to be confused with Baroque Era Landscape painter Francisque Millet or American painter Francis Davis Millet.
		Jean-Francois Millet in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		All images and text on this Jean-Francois Millet page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/millet_jean-francois.html (583 words)

	WebMuseum: Millet, Jean-François (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He had to fight against great odds, living for long a life of extreme penury.
		In 1849, when a cholera epidemic broke out in Paris, Millet moved to Barbizon on the advice of the engraver Charles-Emile Jacque (1813-94) and took a house near that of Théodore Rousseau.
		Devoted to this area as a subject for his work, he was one of those who most clearly helped to create the Barbizon School.
	www.ibiblio.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wm/paint/auth/millet (514 words)

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