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Jean-François Millet

[French Realist Painter, 1814-1875]

• Relationships: Studied under Paul Delaroche.
Not to be confused with Baroque Era Landscape painter Francisque Millet or American painter Francis Davis Millet.
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Original works by Jean-François Millet available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
19 works by Jean-François Millet online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Harvest Scene, charcoal drawing

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Jean-Francois Millet

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Peasant-Girls with Brushwood, ca.1852
Landscape with Two Peasant Women, 1870-75
Death and Woodcutter, ca.1858-59
Farm Near Vichy, 1866

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
5 works online by Millet

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Jean-Francois Millet in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
6 paintings

Jean-Francois Millet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
8 paintings by Jean-François Millet online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
7 paintings and drawings

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on Gleaners

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on Spring

Musée d'Orsay, Paris   NEW!
Commentary on The Angelus

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
Many works by Jean-François Millet online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Pastel collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
2 cliche-verre prints online

Jean-Francois Millet at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Jean-Francois Millet

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Many works

Jean-Francois Millet at the National Gallery, London, UK
Landscape with Buildings
The Whisper
The Winnower


Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Peasant Spreading Manure, 1854-55

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
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4 works online

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Starry Night (Nuit Étoilée)

Art Fund for UK Museums
Bergere Assise, 1848

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia   NEW!

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2 prints online

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Man Leaning on a Spade

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Scroll down the alphabetical list for 4 works by Millet

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Going To Work

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Offering to Pan 1845

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Knitting Lesson, ca.1860

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Return from the Fields
Monsieur Martin


Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Liberty

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!

Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Shepherdess Knitting

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Going to Work, ca.1850-51

Frick Collection, New York City
Woman Sewing by Lamplight, 1870-72

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
The Runaway Cart, charcoal drawing, 1846-50

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland   NEW!
Alphabetically under "M"

Jean-Francois Millet in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maison-Atelier Jean-François Millet, Barbizon, France (in French)   NEW!  

Marian Library at the University of Dayton, Ohio

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The End of the Workday
Washerwomen by Moonlight


Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
The Shepherdess

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Winter

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

National Museums and Galleries of Wales
8 paintings, including the beautiful Gust of Wind

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Death and the Woodcutter, 1858-59

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Woman Churning Butter, 1855-56

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna   NEW!

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Jean-François Millet online

Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Le depart pour le Travail (Peasants Going to Work), 1863

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
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Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Knitting Lesson, 1869
The Comtesse of Valmont, ca.1841

Southampton City Gallery, England   NEW!

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005-2006 exhibition

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
The Sheepfold, Moonlight

Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
The Diggers, ca.1850-55

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Girl carrying water, 1856

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
3 works online

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Bringing Home the Newborn Calf, ca.1857-58

Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
La baratteuse, 1870

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 318

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean-Francois Millet in the Art Renewal Center

Jean-Francois Millet in the Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Shepherdess

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Jean-Francois Millet at CGFA  

Insecula

Rasiel's Wallpapers
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WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion
The Gleaners

The Athenaeum  
10 works online

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Francois Millet
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

International Herald Tribune
"A Quest for Van Gogh's Inspiration," article by Souren Melikian

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"Millet's Milkmaids"

Time Magazine
"A Great Lost Painter", 1976 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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Jean-Francois Millet: The Gleaners
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The Horse
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Haystacks, Autumn, 1873-74
Haystacks, Autumn, 1873-74


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Jean-Francois Millet: Angelus
Angelus


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Spring at Barbizon, 1868-73
Spring at Barbizon, 1868-73


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Woman Grazing Her Cow
Woman Grazing Her Cow


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Shepherdess with Her Flock
Shepherdess with Her Flock


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Narcissi and Violets
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