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 *tis, Artistes belges à l'étranger, ii. 51; Jal, 865; Kramm, iv. 1132; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 344; Rooses (Reber), 415; Van den Branden, 1076.

MILLET, JEAN FRANÇOIS, born at Gréville (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); Œdipus (1845); Jews at Babylon (1848); The Sower (1849); Country Woman Seated, Men binding Wheat (1850); Shepherds, Harvesters, Clipping Sheep (1852); Grafter (1855), Georges Petit, Paris, Hartmann sale (1881), 133,000 francs; Gleaners (1857); Angelus, Death and the Woodcutter, Woman with a Cow (1859); Waiting, Woman feeding her Child, Sheep Shearers (1860); Shepherd collecting 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 Gréville (1865); Goose Girl, Summer (1867); Evening Prayer, Potato Harvest, Potato Planters, Sheep-Pasture by Moonlight (1868); Knitting Lesson (1869); November, Woman Churning (1870); Church at Gréville, Bathers, and crayon sketches, Luxembourg Museum. Works in United States: Grafter, Water-Drawer, Shepherdess, W. Rockefeller, New York; Wool Carder, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; After the Bath, Erwin Davis, ib.; Milk-Jar, Blanchisseuse, Farm Yard Scene, T. C. Runkle, ib.; Shepherdess, At the Well, Water Carrier, Sower, Hunting in Winter, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Girl Spinning, Fletcher Harper, ib.; Milk-Jar, H. V. Newcombe, ib.; Feeding Poultry, Mrs. J. G. Fell, Philadelphia; Naiad, Return of Labourers, and others, Borie Collection, ib.; Shepherd, H. C. Gibson, ib.; Ruth and Boaz, Buckwheat Harvest, Coming Storm, Rabbits, Washerwomen, Knitting Shepherdess, M. Brimmer, Boston; Many pictures and drawings, Q. A. Shaw, ib.; Several, Boston Museum; Knitting Shepherdess, R. C. Taft, Providence; Pastoral Scene with Sheep, G. A. Drummond, Baltimore; Breaking Flax, Potato Harvest, Wheat Field, Angelus, Shepherd at Fold by Moonlight, W. T. Walters, ib.; Birth of the Calf, H. Probasco, Cincinnati. After Millet's death 56 pictures and studies in his studio, many unfinished, sold for 321,034 francs.—Alex. Piédagnel, Souvenirs de Barbizon (Paris, 1876); Sensier, Vie et Œuvre de J. F. Millet (Paris, 1881); Art Journal (1881), 299; Athenæum (1875); Larousse; L'Art (1875), i. 149; Burty, Maîtres, 278; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 28; Claretie, Artistes et Amateurs, 386; Leclerq, Caractères, 115; Meyer, Gesch., 640; Rossetti, French Artists; Gaz. des B. 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. Landscape 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 pictures have been bought for America. Works: Evening on the High Kampe (2, 1860), New Pinakothek, Munich; Gosau Lake, The Obersee near Berchtesgaden, Schack Gallery, ib.; Alp in Bavarian Highlands (1856), Berne Museum.—D. Kunstbl. (1854), 440.

MILO, painter, of Soli, pupil of the sculptor Pyromachus.—Pliny, xxv. 40 [146].