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 ...

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.

The great and original French painter Millet, says the Pall Mall Gazette of Jan. 29, who died last week at Barbizon, near Fontainebleau, was not as well known in England as he deserved.

BALTIMORE — When a nearly 160-year-old pastel by Barbizon master Jean-François Millet — so fragile that ... except for rare books: Those, they must touch with their clean, bare hands.

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 ...

Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus portrays something that, for many people today, is a foreign experience. A pair of farmworkers, a man and a woman, set aside their work-tools and bend in ...

Jean-Francois Millet's oil painting, "Man Turning over the Soil," conveys the harshness and humanity of peasant life by portraying the ageless act of planting with realistic details from mid-19th ...

The new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum is Millet and Modern Art from Van Gogh to Dali. Jean-Francois Millet (1814–1875) painted The Sowers, The Angelus, and The Gleaners, all ...

The ongoing “Millet, Barbizon & Fontainebleau” in Seoul is shedding new light on Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75) and his influence on the start of modernism. The exhibition is visiting from the Museum ...

In the 1840s, a new painting by Jean Francois Millet was unveiled in Paris. But, horror of horrors, no one seemed to like it! Some critics thought the images were too violent; others thought the ...