Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) A collection of paintings 4K UltraHD Silent Slideshow

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement.
Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, members of the farming community in the village of Gruchy, in Gréville-Hague, close to the coast. Under the guidance of two village priests.
A stipend provided by Langlois and others enabled Millet to move to Paris in 1837, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Paul Delaroche. In 1839 his scholarship was terminated, and his first submission to the Salon was rejected.
After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter. However, the following year he married Pauline-Virginie Ono, and they moved to Paris. After rejections at the Salon of 1843 and Pauline's death by consumption, Millet returned again to Cherbourg. In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853; they would have nine children and remain together for the rest of Millet's life. In Le Havre he painted portraits and small genre pieces for several months, before moving back to Paris.
It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer. In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.
Barbizon
In 1849, Millet painted Harvesters, a commission for the state. In the Salon of that year, he exhibited Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest, a very small oil painting which marked a turning away from previous idealized pastoral subjects, in favor of a more realistic and personal approach. In June of that year, he settled in Barbizon with Catherine and their children.
In 1850 Millet entered into an arrangement with Sensier, who provided the artist with materials and money in return for drawings and paintings, while Millet simultaneously was free to continue selling work to other buyers as well. At that year's Salon, he exhibited Haymakers and The Sower, his first major masterpiece and the earliest of the iconic trio of paintings that would include The Gleaners and The Angelus.
The Gleaners
This is one of the most well known of Millet's paintings, The Gleaners (1857). While Millet was walking the fields around Barbizon, one theme returned to his pencil and brush for seven years-gleaning-the centuries-old right of poor women and children to remove the bits of grain left in the fields following the harvest. He found the theme an eternal one, linked to stories from the Old Testament. In 1857, he submitted the painting The Gleaners to the Salon to an unenthusiastic, even hostile, public.
The Angelus
The painting was commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American art collector based in Boston, Massachusetts. Appleton previously studied with Millet's friend, the Barbizon painter Constant Troyon. It was completed during the summer of 1857. Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800,000 gold francs.
The disparity between the apparent value of the painting and the poor estate of Millet's surviving family was a major impetus in the invention of the droit de suite, intended to compensate artists or their heirs when works are resold.
In 1870, Millet was elected to the Salon jury. Later that year, he and his family fled the Franco-Prussian War, moving to Cherbourg and Gréville, and did not return to Barbizon until late in 1871. His last years were marked by financial success and increased official recognition, but he was unable to fulfill government commissions due to failing health. On January 3, 1875, he married Catherine in a religious ceremony. Millet died on January 20, 1875.
Millet was an important source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Claude Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy; his structural and symbolic content influenced Georges Seurat as well. Millet is the main protagonist of Mark Twain's play Is He Dead?
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[@pchabanowich]

He painted people I knew throughout my life - those intimate with earth and toil - and these break my heart for their beauty and authenticity. Thank you for this curation and silent delivery. Such a gift you've shared!❣

[@unitedllcroofingusa6925]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK................... I REALLY APPRECIATED AND ENJOY IT VERY MUCH...................

[@javierpalacios475]

Hermosas pinturas hermoso el tratamiento de la luz y la profundidad. Es un pintor maravilloso.. Gracias

[@masterpainters1706]

Thank you for your comment. I agree he is a wonderful artist artist and his way of capturing light effects is beautiful. Sorry I have to answer in English. Thank you again for supporting the channel x

[@javierpalacios475]

@@masterpainters1706 gracias disfruto mucho de contemplar tu canal

[@Thathoustonhijabi]

I have this painting. I purchased it in Amberg in 1998. It is quite a conversation piece.

[@felipebrock9043]

instablaster.

[@MAC-ws8fz]

NO MUSIC! HOORAY! Thanks, for once I could watch till the end!

[@masterpainters1706]

Hi. I'm really glad to hear that you agree with me. I just wanted silence so I could focus completely on the painting. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video.

[@hdtripper1]

Anyone know where I can see the painting Le Piège (The bird catcher),Jean-Francois Millet?

[@masterpainters1706]

Do you mean the night painting, hunting birds.?

[@hdtripper1]

@@masterpainters1706 This was hung in my doctors office It showed a old style country man crouched down in a barn looking out with a rope attached to a box on a stick waiting for some birds to go under box to catch them.I cant even find a place on line that shows it.

[@hdtripper1]

@@masterpainters1706 It's not a night scene.

[@masterpainters1706]

I'll see if I can get it for you