Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter, with Introduction and Interpretation
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Estelle May Hurll (1863-1924) was the author of The Madonna in Art (1898), Raphael (1899), Jean François Millet (1900), Michelangelo (1900), Correggio (1901), Child-Life in Art (1901), The Bible Beautiful (1908), Sir Joshua Reynolds, Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century. "In making a selection of Millet's pictures, devoted as they are to the single theme of French peasant life, variety of subject can be obtained only by showing as many phases of that life as possible. Our illustrations therefore represent both men and women working separately in the tasks peculiar ...
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- JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET
- A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATION
- ESTELLE M. HURLL
- 1900
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES
- INTRODUCTION
- I. ON MILLET'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST
- II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE
- III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE PICTURES OF THIS COLLECTION
- IV. OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN MILLET'S LIFE
- V. SOME OF MILLET'S ASSOCIATES
- I
- GOING TO WORK
- II
- THE KNITTING LESSON
- III
- THE POTATO PLANTERS
- IV
- THE WOMAN SEWING BY LAMPLIGHT
- V
- THE SHEPHERDESS
- VI
- THE WOMAN FEEDING HENS
- VII
- THE ANGELUS
- VIII
- FILLING THE WATER-BOTTLES
- IX
- FEEDING HER BIRDS
- X
- THE CHURCH AT GRÉVILLE
- XI
- THE SOWER
- XII
- THE GLEANERS
- XIII
- THE MILKMAID[1]
- XIV
- THE WOMAN CHURNING
- XV
- THE MAN WITH THE HOE
- XVI
- THE PORTRAIT OF MILLET
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