On the ground floor of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris hangs an oil painting that was commissioned but never collected. It depicts ...

Jean-François Millet, born in 1814, was a pivotal French painter and one of the founding members of the Barbizon school in rural France. Best known for his scenes of peasant farmers, Millet ...

Jean-François Millet’s Grandson Ran a ‘Fake Art Factory.’ A New Show at the Getty Reckons With Its Legacy The iconic 'Man With A Hoe' will be displayed alongside a forged preparatory study.

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-François Millet's "Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz)," from 1850. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frequent visitors to the MFA in recent years would have passed his “Potato Planters,” 1861 ...

Jean-François Millet I's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 275 USD to 53,299 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the ...

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 ...

IN the Louvre there are only two unimportant works by Jean François Millet : a small landscape of the church of Gréville. and a study of some bathers, painted while the artist was still seeking ...

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.

An exhibition of work by the French artist — who inspired more famous painters, from Van Gogh to Dali — comes to the St. Louis Art Museum.

THE recent death of Jean François Millet has suggested the following reminiscences of a period when the writer enjoyed somewhat exceptional opportunities of intercourse with the distinguished ...

JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET. Share full article. April 18, 1875. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 18, 1875, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.