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Jean-François Millet Works Online
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Original works by Jean-François Millet available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Peasant-Girls with Brushwood, ca.1852 Landscape with Two Peasant Women, 1870-75 Death and Woodcutter, ca.1858-59 Farm Near Vichy, 1866
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 5 works online by Millet
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 6 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  Page past the works on paper by "Jean-François Millet I", a 17-century artist, for hundreds of works on paper by the artist
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Pastel collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! 2 cliche-verre prints online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  Many works
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  4 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  Starry Night (Nuit Étoilée)
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff 8 paintings, including the beautiful Gust of Wind
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana 2 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Man Leaning on a Spade
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Scroll down the alphabetical list for 4 works by Millet
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Going To Work, 1851-53 The Diggers, 1855-56
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Offering to Pan 1845
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts The Knitting Lesson, ca.1860
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 3 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Shepherdess Knitting
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Woman Sewing by Lamplight
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "M"
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maison-Atelier Jean-François Millet, Barbizon, France (in French) 
Marian Library at the University of Dayton, Ohio
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York The End of the Workday Washerwomen by Moonlight
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin The Shepherdess
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  Portrait d'un officier de marine
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles, France (in French)  La Bouillie
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish) 
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Winter
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Susanna and the Elders
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Spring (Daphnis and Chloë), 1865
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England 3 works online
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Death and the Woodcutter, 1858-59
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Peasant Spreading Manure, 1854-55
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Woman Churning Butter, 1855-56
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)  La Becquée
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri The Knitting Lesson, 1869 The Comtesse of Valmont, ca.1841
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005-2006 exhibition
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW! Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Jean-Francois Millet at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth The Diggers, ca.1850-55
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Girl carrying water, 1856
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Bringing Home the Newborn Calf, ca.1857-58
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan La baratteuse, 1870
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Bergere Assise, 1848
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean-Francois Millet at The Art Renewal Center
Jean-Francois Millet at The Artchive 
Jean-Francois Millet at The Athenaeum  10 works online
Jean-Francois Millet in the Web Gallery of Art 
Jean-Francois Millet in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artliste Image archive with zoomable images
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Jean-Francois Millet at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick Louise-Antoinette Feuardent
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
Memory of the Netherlands Project Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers (Click on the size of the scan you wish to view) Works by Millet to be found on pages 1 and 3 of this site
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Francois Millet  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine The Shepherdess, 1870-74
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "A Quest for Van Gogh's Inspiration," article by Souren Melikian
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide "Millet's Milkmaids"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Drawn into the Light: Jean Francois Millet
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 Etchings of Urban and Rural 19Th-Century France
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