Scientists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston x-rayed Millet's 1870 painting The Young Shepherdess looking for minor changes, and discovered that it was painted over Captivity
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Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon d…
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culture · French painter (1814–1875) · plower · painter · engraver · architectural drafter · photographer · graphic artist · visual artist · draftsperson · pastellist · also Jean-François Millet, Jean François Millet, Jean-Francois Millet, Jean Francois Millet, Mile, Zhan Fransua Mille
Born 4 October 1814 · Died 20 January 1875 · Q148458
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1875· 1 entry
Died 1875-01-20.
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1870· 1 entry
Millet was elected to the Salon jury
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1868· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1868).
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1867· 1 entry
The Exposition Universelle hosted a major showing of his work, with the Gleaners, Angelus, and Potato Planters among the paintings exhibited
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1865· 2 entries
Another patron, Emile Gavet, began commissioning pastels for a collection that eventually included 90 works
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The painting changed hands several times, increasing only modestly in value, since some considered the artist's political sympathies suspect
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1857· 1 entry
Submitted the painting The Gleaners to the Salon to an unenthusiastic, even hostile, public
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1854· 1 entry
An etching of 1855–56 which directly presaged the horizontal format of the painting now in the Musée d'Orsay
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1850· 1 entry
Millet entered into an arrangement with Sensier, who provided the artist with materials and money in return for drawings and paintings, while Millet simultaneously was free to continue selling work to other buyers as wel
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1849· 1 entry
Millet painted Harvesters, a commission for the state
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1847· 1 entry
His first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848, his Winnower was bought by the government
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1845· 1 entry
Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he married in a civil ceremony in 1853; they had nine children and remained together for the rest of Millet's life
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1839· 2 entries
Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1837–1839).
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His scholarship was terminated, and his first submission to the Salon, Saint Anne Instructing the Virgin, was rejected by the jury
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1837· 1 entry
Where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Paul Delaroche
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1833· 1 entry
His father sent him to Cherbourg to study with a portrait painter named Bon Du Mouchel
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1814· 1 entry
Born 1814-10-04.
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