In the first of the semi-finals, UCL alumni answer questions about the artist Jean-François Millet.

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 ...

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 ...

For all the ample miseries of the pandemic, opportunities have emerged for those willing to see them. For art institutions, they’ve ranged in scale from the transformative — the now unignorable calls ...

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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Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), a foundational figure in French Realism, was born in Gruchy, a rural hamlet near Gréville-Hague in Normandy. The eldest son of peasant farmers Jean-Louis-Nicolas and ...

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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 ...