Jean - Baptiste Jumelin, may be found in biographical dictionaries. A pious grandmother was careful that good books should always be lying in the children’s way; the boy Millet eagerly devoured ...

As grateful artists everywhere will know, today is the 200th birthday of Jean-François Millet, a painter whose ... Graham Robb wrote is his 2008 book, The Discovery of France.

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 ...

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.

The artists who inspired Vincent van Gogh naturally changed as his own style developed, but there was one he loved throughout his whole career: Jean-François Millet. “The intensity with which ...

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.

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.

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-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 ...