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 MILLET tis, Artistes beiges a 1'etranger, ii. 51 ; Jal, 865 ; Kramm, iv. 1132 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 344 ; Rooses (Reber), 415 ; Van den Bran- den, 1076. MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS, born at Gru"- ville (Manche), Oct. 4, 1814, died at Barbizon (Seine-et-Marne), Jan. 20, 1875. Genre painter, pupil of Mouchel and of Langlois in Cherbourg and of Delaroche in : Paris. A peasant himself in origin ; his representations of peasant life were painted with simple, earnest feeling and a comprehension of its pathos such as no other painter has reached. His best work began in 1849, with contributions to the Salon, which were continued up to 1870. Medals : 2d class, 1853, 1864 ; 1st class, 1867 ; L. of Honour, 1868. Works : Milkmaid, Lesson in Riding (1844) ; (Edi- pus (1845) ; Jews at Babylon (1848) ; The Sower (1849) ; Country Woman .Seated, Men binding Wheat (1850) ; Shepherds, Harvest- ers, Clipping Sheep (1852) ; Grafter (1855), Georges Petit, Paris, Hartmann sale (1881), 133,000 francs ; Gleaners (1857) ; Anyelita, Death and the Woodcutter, Woman with a Cow (1859) ; Waiting, Woman feeding her Child, Sheep Shearers (1860) ; Shepherd col- lecting his Sheep, Wool Carder, Man with Hoe (1863); Shepherdess with her Flock, Peasants bringing Home a Calf born in the Fields (1864) ; End of Village of Greville (1865) ; Goose Girl, Summer (1867) ; Even- ing Prayer, Potato Harvest, Potato Planters, Sheep-Pasture by Moonlight (1868) ; Knit- ting Lesson (1869); November, Woman Churning (1870) ; Church at Greville, Bath- ers, and crayon sketches, Luxembourg Mu- seum. Works in United States: Grafter, Water-Drawer, Shepherdess, W. Rockefel- ler, New York; Wool Carder, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib. ; After the Bath, Erwiu Davis, ib. ; Milk-Jar, Blanchisseuse, Farm Yard Scene, T. C. Runkle, ib. ; Shepherdess, At the Well, Water Carrier, Rower, Hunting in Winter, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib. ; Girl Spin- ning, Fletcher Harper, ib. ; Milk-Jar, H. V. Newcombe, ib. ; Feeding Poultry, Mrs. J. G. Fell, Philadelphia; Naiad, Return of Labour- ers, and others, Borie Collection, ib. ; Shep- herd, H. C. Gibson, ib. ; Ruth and Boaz, ftuckirheat Harvest, Coming Storm, Rabbits, Washerwomen, Knitting Shejiherdeati, M. Brimmer, Boston ; Many pictures and draw- ings, Q. A. Shaw, ib. ; Several, Boston Mu- seum ; Knitting Shepherdess, R. C. Taft, Providence ; Pastoral Scene with Sheep, G. A. Drummoud, Baltimore ; Breaking Flax, Potato Harvest, Wheat Field, Angelus, Shep- herd at Fold by Moonlight, W. T. Walters, ib.; Birth of the Calf, H. Probasco, Cincin- nati. After Millet's death 56 pictures and studies in hi.s studio, many unfinished, sold for 321,034 francs. Alex. Pu-dagnel, Sou- venirs do Barbizon (Paris, 187(5) ; Sensier, Vie et (Euvre de J. F. Millet (Paris, 1881) ; Art Journal (1881), 299 ; Atheiueum (1875) ; Laroussc ; L'Art (1875), i. 149 ; Burty, Mai- tres, 278 ; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 28 ; Cla- re tie, Artistes et Amateurs, 386 ; Leclerq, Caracteres, 115 ; Meyer, Gesch., 640 ; Ros- setti, French Artists ; Gaz. desB. Arts (1869), ii. 8 ; (1875), xi. 429; (1876), xiii. 760; (1881), xxiii. 457 ; xxiv. 56 ; (1885), xxxi. 473 ; Kunst-Chronik, x. 360 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, ii. 121. MILLNER, KARL, born in 1825. Land- scape painter, who takes his subjects mostly from the Bavarian and Tyrolese Alps, which he represents with great truth to nature and technical skill, being especially successful in painting stone and rocks. Many of his pict- ures have been bought for America. Works : Evening on the High Kampe (2, 1860), New Pinakothek, Munich ; GosauLake, TheOber- see near Berchtesgaden, Schack Gallery, ib. ; Alp in Bavarian Highlands (1856), Berne Museum. D. Kunstbl. (1854), 440. MILO, painter, of Soli, pupil of the sculp- tor Pyromachus. Pliny, xxv. 40 [146]. 273