In the National Gallery’s new exhibition, the 19th-century French painter’s unadorned pictures capture the dignity of labour.

Even an initial glance around this one-room gathering of his peasants tells that Millet’s is anything but a naive art. Rather, it is a sophisticated, carefully staged naturalism: sculptural, almost ...

Jean-François Millet, Man with a Hoe (ca.1860–2). Image: courtesy the Getty This story of an entitled and bitter young artist is on display at Los Angeles’ Getty Center (runs until December 10).

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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 made two paintings that demonstrate the motion question well. In one of them, motion fails. Potato Planters depicts two peasants.

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 ...

This traveling Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) exhibition has finally reached Tokyo's Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, bringing his masterpiece 'The Sower' to the city for the first time in 30 ...

Courtesy of Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam “The Angelus” (1857-1859) by Jean-François Millet Photo by Patrice Schmidt, RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource; courtesy of Musee d'Orsay, Paris ...

It was at Chailly that Millet was buried, by the side of his friend, Theodore Rousseau to be christened or married, whether by clergyman or by magistrate. ↩ Owned in Boston, where it has been ...