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Jean-François Millet

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Painting of figures gathering apples beneath a tree in a dim orchard, with baskets and a donkey near a glowing doorway.

Apple Gatherers

1852

Painting of a young woman in a straw hat spinning wool on a grassy bank, with a goat and open sky behind her.

La fileuse, chevrière auvergnate

1868

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress with white lace collar and gold earrings, hands folded, against a brown background.

Madame Frigot

1841

Painting of Ceres with a wheat crown and red skirt in a harvest field, with a sickle, bread basket, sleeping child and reaper

Ceres (or The Summer)

1864

Oil portrait of a young man with dark shoulder-length hair and beard, wearing a dark double-breasted coat and black cravat.

Portrait of a Man

1845

Oil portrait of a young man in a dark blue coat and red cravat resting his hand on a stone ledge.

Leconte de Lisle

1840

Woman in a white bonnet and red bodice sewing by an oil lamp in a dark interior, painted by Jean-François Millet.

Woman Sewing by Lamplight

1870

Woman in blue headscarf and white apron seated in a chair, working with wool cards in her lap, by Jean-François Millet.

Woman Carding Wool

1856

Painting of a woman with a finger to her lips beside a sleeping child in a dark interior.

Woman and Child (Silence)

1855

Portrait of a man in a dark naval officer's uniform with a peaked cap, gold epaulette and sword, before a cloudy sky.

Porträt eines Marineoffiziers

1850

Painting of a peasant girl in a red headscarf carrying two wooden buckets before a shadowy wall and foliage.

Peasant Girl Returning from the Well

1860

Painting of a woman in a headscarf spoon-feeding a baby she holds in her lap, in a dim interior with a basket.

Femme faisant manger son enfant (La bouillie)

1861

Painted portrait of a young man in a white shirt and dark cravat, seated in a chair and holding a pipe.

Portrait of Armand Ono

1843

Oil portrait of a young woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a blue dress and black shawl, against a dark background.

Portrait of Pauline Ono in Blue

1842

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair and mustache, wearing a dark coat and white cravat, against a brown background.

Portrait d'homme anonyme

1845

Half-length portrait of a man in a dark embroidered jacket with a red ribbon and star medal against a dark background.

Portrait of Paul Javain

1841

Painting of an elderly man sewing by candlelight in a dim interior, with a sleeping child in bed at the left.

Millet J.C. - Oil on paper - Veillée à la bougie - ~55x45cm

Drawing of a female figure in a red cap raising a sword above fallen figures, rendered in soft chalk tones.

Liberty

1848-49

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a headscarf carding wool, with a spinning wheel behind her.

The Wool Carder (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of Man Standing by Fence (verso)

1857/58

Charcoal drawing of a woman riding a donkey with a basket while a man walks beside them across a flat field.

The Departure for Work

1857

Charcoal drawing of a man in a doorway and a woman cradling a child, with a cat on a windowsill.

The Sick Child

1858

Drawing of two women carrying heavy bundles of faggots on their backs against a dark wooded background.

Women Carrying Faggots

ca. 1858

Charcoal portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair and a white collar, turned three-quarters toward the viewer.

Portrait of Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña

1848

Charcoal sketch on blue paper of a man in a wide-brimmed hat striding with arm outstretched and a sack over his shoulder.

The Sower

Etching of a shepherdess in a long cloak leaning on a staff beside birch trees, with sheep grazing in a field behind her.

The Large Shepherdess (La grande bergere)

1862

Etching of a man in a hat pushing a loaded wheelbarrow past a stone cottage with a thatched roof.

Man with Wheelbarrow (Le paysan rentrant du fumier)

1855

Etching of a farmer couple walking across a field, the man carrying a pitchfork over his shoulder and the woman with a bundle

Departure for Work (Le depart pour le travail)

1863

Dim interior drawing with a cat at a diamond-paned window and two seated figures in shadow, light falling across the floor.

"Le chat" or The Cat at the Window

about 1857-1858

Etching of a woman in a headscarf spoon-feeding a child seated in her lap, with cross-hatched shading.

La Bouillie (Woman Feeding Her Child)

1861

Etching of a woman in a long dress pouring water from a bucket into stone jugs beside a stone farmhouse wall.

Femme Vidant Un Seau

plate 1862; print 1921

Etching of a young woman in a bonnet beside a tree, with geese in the grass and a cottage in the distance.

A Girl Minding Geese

1855-56

Etching of a woman churning milk in a wooden churn beside a cat, in a dim barn interior.

Vrouw karnt melk in karnton

1855