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Jean-François Millet

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Oil sketch of a rocky cliff above a dark sea with a warm orange sunset sky and a distant headland.

Alexandre Langevin

1844

Painting of an elderly man waiting in a cottage doorway as a woman in blue walks toward him at dusk, with a cat nearby.

Waiting

1860

Painting of a bare plain with an abandoned plough and harrow, crows on the soil, and a distant hill with a tree under a dusky

The Plain of Chailly with Harrow and Plough

1862

Italianate landscape with a hilltop castle, large trees, harvest workers, a shepherd with sheep, and a cloudy sky.

Italienische Landschaft

Night landscape with a dirt path, silhouetted trees, a glowing horizon, and a starry sky with two shooting stars.

Starry Night

1850

Painting of rocky sea cliffs with surf breaking on dark rocks under a pastel, cloud-filled sky.

Les falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville)

1871

Reclining figure in green cloth on sand, a second figure lying further back in a dusky desert landscape.

The desperate Hagar and Ishmael in the desert (Genesis 21:15-16)

1848

Painting of a round stone tower on a hill with grazing cattle, sheep and a seated figure under a cloudy sky.

The Tour de Chailly at Barbizon

1873

Painting of sheep in a moonlit fold under a glowing moon, with a haystack and a distant figure on a dark plain.

The sheepfold, moonlight

1872

Painting of a rocky coastline with grassy cliffs, breaking waves, and a calm sea under a pale cloudy sky.

The Coast at Gréville

Painting of a cloaked shepherd with a staff walking through a field of grazing sheep under a cloudy sky.

Shepherd Tending His Flock

1860

Painting of a shepherdess in a red skirt standing among grazing sheep on hills beneath a glowing cloudy sky.

The Keeper of the Herd

1871

Dim rustic interior with a seated woman holding a child, several children standing by a pot, and a man in the shadows.

Intérieur rustique

1875

Painting of a farmer leading two horses down a dirt path past stone walls and trees toward red-roofed farm buildings.

Hameau Cousin à Gréville

1854

Painting of nymphs and a satyr resting in a dark forest, with a reclining nude woman in the foreground.

Nymphs Resting in the Forest by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

1846

Pastoral landscape with a classical white building, shepherd and flock of sheep, and a seated couple in the foreground.

L'Observatoire, vu de la Butte aux Cailles

Colored drawing of a farmer crouching to encourage a toddler taking first steps while a woman supports the child in a garden.

First Steps

c. 1859-66

Soft brown monochrome print of a woman standing in an open field with a distant figure and a hazy sky.

Woman Hanging Out Clothes

c. 1855

Pen and brown ink drawing of a grassy hillside with trees, a winding path, and grazing cows under a hatched sky.

Landscape - Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy

1869/70

Small torn tan paper fragment with the handwritten signature J F Millet, mounted on a cream backing sheet.

Signature Fragment from the Shepherdess

n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of thatched cottages behind a hedgerow and trees, with a sketched field in the foreground.

Cottages

1870-71

Charcoal sketch on blue paper of two men in hats carrying a stretcher with a small animal lying on it.

The Newborn

Etching of two men digging a trench in an open field, one with a shovel and one with a spade, under a cloudy sky.

The Diggers (Les becheurs)

1855

Etching of two peasant diggers bending over shovels in an open field with hills and smoke on the horizon.

Les bêcheurs (The diggers)

1855

Charcoal sketch of two trees with dark branches over a hillside, with faint handwriting running vertically across the tan pap

Two Trees (with figure?)

1851

Etching of two peasant laborers digging a trench with spades in a flat field under a cloudy sky.

Les Bêcheurs

1855

Etching of a landscape with a traveler walking a path, tall trees, a stone tower, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

Landschap met reiziger

Pen and wash drawing of a thatched farmhouse among trees beyond a tall wheat field in the foreground.

Hamlet in a Wheat Field, Vichy

1867

Charcoal drawing of a shepherdess with a staff beside her grazing sheep flock, with tall trees on the right.

A Shepherdess with Her Flock

ca. 1852

Pen and ink landscape drawing with green wash showing sandy dunes, a cluster of trees, and shrubs under open sky.

Landscape, Vichy

ca. 1866-67

Charcoal sketch of a seated shepherd with a crook, a standing dog, and resting sheep in an open field.

A Seated Shepherd with His Dog and Sheep

1830-75

Charcoal drawing of cattle grazing by a river under a full moon, with dark hills and small buildings in the distance.

Flusslandschaft mit Viehweide bei Vollmond

1845