Jean-François Millet Peasant and Painter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sensier, Alfred.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Technique.

Drawing--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Braunfell Books, 2023.

Summary:

The story of the life and work of French painter Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), written by his friend, confidante and correspondent Alfred Sensier."For more than thirty years we lived Millet's life, receiving his confidences and complaints, and knowing his innermost thoughts. We loved him; he knew our affection for him, and withheld no confidences from us.Millet had a suffering and melancholy nature, but he was first of all a man of strong convictions. Faithful and proud in his religion and his art, to these he sacrificed pleasure, repose, and even his life, which was shortened by his struggles.We therefore publish a life of Millet from his own words and testimony. There is nothing to hide. Everything is healthy, pure, and instructive."

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALFRED SENSIER.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: FROM MILLET'S WORKS.

I.-Millet's Family and Birth-Recollections of his Childhood in Normandy.

II.-Millet begins his Art Studies.

III.-Millet in Paris-First Visits to the Luxembourg and the Louvre-Enters Delaroche's Studio.

IV.-Millet Begins Life as an Artist-His First and Second Marriages-Settles in Paris-The Revolution of 1848-Rousseau.

V.-Millet at Barbizon-"The Sower"-Deaths of his Grandmother and Mother.

VI.-Americans in Barbizon-Hard Times-Two Visits to Normandy.

VII.-The Universal Exhibition 1855-The Invisible American-Millet's Anxieties-His Artistic Progress-"The Gleaners."

VIII.-"The Angelus"-"Death and the Woodcutter"-Visits from Decamps-A Three Years' Contract.

IX.-The Salon of 1861-A Suicide in Barbizon-"Peasant Leaning on his Hoe"-Millet's Confession of Faith.

X.-Illustrations of Theocritus-Interest in Delacroix-In Japanese Art-"Shepherds Bringing Home a New-born Calf."

XI.-Millet's Decorative Paintings-Death of his Sister Emilie-Visit to Vichy.

XII.-The Universal Exhibition of 1867-Death of Rousseau-Millet made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor-Visits Switzerland with Sensier-The War with Germany-Millet at Cherbourg-He Revisits his Birthplace, with Sensier.

XIII.-Millet's Last Years.

APPENDIX.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Sensier, Alfred Jean-François Millet Peasant and Painter

ISBN:

9781805230656

OCLC:

1369657462