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Title: Jean-François Millet, peasant and painter;
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Sensier, Alfred, 1815-1877
Subjects: Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875
Publisher: London Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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aux Arts offered Milletfifteen hundred francs. He had already sold it for two thousand.After the Salon, he received a medal — this was all. Barbizon, June 6th, 1864. My Dear Sensier : Thank you for the number of the Figaro thatyou sent. It is really very curious, and, by the way, gives me a desire to meetJean Rousseau if it could happen naturally. It might be of real use. He doesnot sufficiently understand that things are of value only according to theirfundamental ciualities, and he still believes that the care with which a thingis done, even if it is aimless, ought to be taken into account. In fact, itwould be a good thing to make him understand that things exist only tothe extent of the stuff they contain. Think how this may be brought about. I will make a sketch forthe Autographe; you may tell whoever it concerns. Blanchet brought thecanvases. Let us pray Him who gives us intelligence not to desert us, forwe need all our powers to bring this task to a fortunate conclusion. * # *
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Shepherdess. PEASANT AND PAINTER, 1/5 15th June. My panels are under way, and, as far as I can judge, my compositionsdont look so very bad. I am painting them with ordinary oil colors; I didnot like to embark in the Haro paints, especially as the trial I made of themwas not exactly what I wanted. I hope in a week the effect of my composi-tions will be decided. I dig at it like a slave,— am entirely absorbed in mywork. I work till dark, and then I dont go out at all; but I do not want torest until I have got the thing well in shape. I must send you the sketch forthe Autographe. J.-F. Millet. 20th July.I live among sick people. My wife suffers horribly with her head;several of the children are ailing. 13th August. I have the news,* and we leave instantly, Rousseau and I, to see you.Courage, if you can. 9th October.* * * I have just had a visit from M. Thomas de Colmar(the proprietor of the house in the Boulevard Haussmann). At first hcseemed pleased on seeing my panels, then more plea

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