Introduction: On this page you will find an overview of 144 pictures I could find of Jean-Baptiste Millet, mostly drawings and watercolours. I will render them thematically and by form. I also try to link these pictures to works Millet did exhibit at the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1876, at the Salon and at the Hôtel Drouot sales. Most suggestions are just to compare. See link for an account. See link for an explanation of the subscription. For the sources see at the bottom of the mainpage about Jean-Baptiste Millet. Note: If you double click on the first picture and then click on full screen, you can create a slideshow. Enjoy!
Locations:
Jean-Baptiste Millet regularly added locations to the titles of his pictures. Pictures that are known nowadays just sometimes render locations in the title (I hope this is accounted for).
Millet namely noted Barbizon and it’s surroundings: Chailly-en-Bière (just north), Fleury-en-Bière (just west), Cély (just west of Fleury), Saint-Martin-en-Bière (just south; including Macherin), Fontainebleau (to the east-south) and the forest of Fontainebleau (just east). Jean-Baptiste Millet lived in Barbizon with his elder brother Jean-François (aR5;aR6). After the death of Jean-François in 1875, Jean-Baptiste began to wander around (aR6). In a letter it is noted that Jean-Baptiste flew from Paris to Barbizon in 1870/11 (iR40/bpt6k96868782 =R349III,p64). So, I assume most of his works made in and around Barbizon were made between 1870 and 1875. This seems to be affirmed by the fact that many of the works exhibited in these years carry these locations (except SdAF-1880-5409).
Not exhibited, but noted in present titles are Gruchy and nearby Gréville, now both part of Gréville-Hague (iR3) in the Manche region. Gruchy lies near the English Channel. Several of the works of Jean-Baptiste Millet depict a sea-view. I assume these were made near Gruchy. I will render these works here below.
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Vaches en bord de mer (HW: near Gruchy), wc, 15×21, A2017/12/13 (iR86;TdMaigret Paris)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Troupeau de vache (HW: near Gruchy), gravure, 14×10, Leboncoin.fr (iR10;iRx)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, End of the village in Gruchy near Gréville (House; cottages), dr, 15×20, A2022/05/15 (iR86;iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 1867, SDbl, Country scene (with cottages and wall) (HW: near Gruchy), gravure, 14×9, Leboncoin.fr (aR4;iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 1870ca, Sbr, Village Scene (HW: Gruchy), charcoal, 27×36, Artsmania (iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Sheep in a coastal landscape (HW: near Gruchy), dr, 22×27, A2022/11/03 (iR68;iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet?: Sbl?, 18xx, Vache couchée sous un arbre devant la mer (HW: near Gruchy), charcoal, 14×16, A2005/06/13 (iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet?: 18xx, S-, Paysage de la Manche, charcoal, 17×23, A2021/10/05 (iR11;iRx;iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Le puits de Gruchy, charcoal, 55×44, MTH Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (iR23;M242)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Le puits de Gruchy, charcoal, 37×28, MTH Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (iR23;M242)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Petite chaumière (Le puits de Gruchy), dr, 26×21, A2014/11/26 (iR86;iR13)
Shepherd(ess) with sheep, cows and other animals:
Jean-Baptiste very often depicted herds with or without their shepherds, mosthly of sheep and cows, but also of poultry. Some of these works are made near the sea, which probably was near to his parental house in Gruchy (Gréville; la Manche), these you will find above. He also made some studies of animals. Just one of these works is known te have been exhibited:
2IE-1876-138, Femme gardant les vaches (aquarelle)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Two goats, dr, 13×11, A2024 (iR10;iR253;iR42)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Sketch of a milking stool and a goose, dr, 8×12, private (iR77)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Study of ducks, dr, 6×10, A2002/12/04 (iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Study of ducks, dr, 6×10, A2002/12/04 (iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Study of ducks and a cat, dr, 6×10, A2002/12/04 (iR13)
Country views with farms / hamlets:
Jean-Baptiste Millet depicted many farms / hamlets / villages. Some depicted Gruchy, which you will find above. Many of these themes Millet exhibited in 1876 (2IE-1876), at the Salon (=S) or were sold at Hôtel Drouot (=HD).
S1877-3165, Une récolte de noix; aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-58, Entrée de village; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-68, Carrefour de village; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-62, Un Hameau; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-63, Rue de village; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-74, La Passerelle; mine de plomb
S1870-3830, Vue de l’église de Chailly; aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-50, Église et village de Chailly; sépia
HD1874/03/07-45, Vue de Chailly; aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-66, Environs de Barbizon; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-69, Étude près du bornage (Barbizon); drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-52, Un jardin à Barbizon; sépia
HD1877/01/27-67, Ferme aux environs de Barbizon, aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-47, Ferme et village de Barbizon; aquarelle
S1874-2385, La ferme de Barbizon; aquarelle
2IE-1876-143, Ferme du Fays
HD1874/03/07-56, Un ferme à Cély; drawing / sketch
2IE-1876-139, La Ferme (aquarelle)
S1876-2763, Une ferme; aquarelle
2IE-1876-142, Coin de ferme
HD1874/03/07-64, Un Clos; drawing / sketch
HD1877/01/27-66, Cour de ferme, sépia
S1877-3164, Une cour de ferme; aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-51, Entrée de la ferme; sépia
2IE-1876-140, La Chaumière (aquarelle)
HD1874/03/07-73, Un verger; drawing / sketch
2IE-1876-145, Le verger (sépia)
HD1874/03/07-61, Sous les pommiers; drawing / sketch
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Barbizon, les travaux des champs, wc+g, 16×21, A2021/10/08 (iR10;iR11;R2,p163) Compare: 2IE-1876-143, Ferme du Fays; appartient à M. Haro
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Cour de ferme (Farmyard), wc, 22×25, A2017/04/25 (iR86;iR241;iR10;R2,p163) Compare: 2IE-1876-142, Coin de ferme.
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Landscape (HW: with a bending road and a farm), wc, 16×22, A2008/12/11 (iR13;R2,p163) =?? 2IE-1876-139, La Ferme (aquarelle); appartient à M. Haro
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Sunlit Garden, charcoal, 27×36, NGA Washington (iR6;M21)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, View on a village (hamlet), dr, 23×32, A2022/02/22 (iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Country scene with woman gathering, gravure, 12×8, Leboncoin.fr (iR10;iRx)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Une paysanne ramassant des herbes (A peasant woman picking herbs), dr, 24×18, A2005/12/16 (iR11)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Les premiers pas (The first steps), dr, 18×23, A2011/06/05 (iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Maison de campagne (cottage; farm), pencil, 17×23, A2023/09/02 (iR86;iR11;iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Maison de campagne (farm), dr, 23×30, A2016/07/01 (iR86;iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, De retour à la ferme, xx, xx (iR41;R2,p163;iR1)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, A landscape with a field of mangold wurzels, dr + wc, 18×25, A2003/07/08 (iR11;R2,p163) =?? 2IE-1876-140, La Chaumière (aquarelle); appartient à M. Petit
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, La ferme, charcoal, 21×29, A2018/11/14 (iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Habitations à l’orée du bois (Houses on the edge of the wood), sépia, 21×29, A2015/11/13 (iR241;iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Before the farm, charcoal, A2010/03/14 (iR17)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Works in the field, wc, 20×25, A2020/03/09 (iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Retour de troupeau (Le chemin vers la ferme), ink wash, 24×31, MTH Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (iR23;M242;R2,p163) Compare: 2IE-1876-145, Le verger (sépia).
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, La vielle chaumière, dr? sepia?, xx, xx (iR41)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Paysage bocager (Hedged landscape), brown ink, 15×22, MBA Saint-Lô (iR23;iR86;iR11)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Vue d’un verger, dr, 23×37, A2014/03/27 (iR86;iR10;iR13;R2,p163) Compare: 2IE-1876-145, Le verger (sépia).
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Landscape with trees (and farm), dr, 18×25?, A2024/09/24 (iR11)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Le colombier (The pigeon house), dr, 24×32, A2023/07/04 (iR11)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Landscape with a tower, dr, 15×21, A2022/12/07 (iR86)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Etude de paysage normand ou breton, drawing, 14×20, private (iR2)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Landscape (with pool and house), dr, 23×27, A2019/04/28 (iR17;iR68) =? retrospective 1943/44
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Scène de basse-cour (La ferme), pencil, 25×21, A2022/10/29 (iR11;iR13)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, An old farmhouse with an old stone porch, dr, 16×24, private (iR77;iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Country scene with cottages, dry point engraving, 18×13, Leboncoin.fr (aR4;iR10)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sverso, Petite paysanne portant une gerbe, dr+wc+g, 47×56, MTH Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (iR23;M242;R2,p163) =?? 2IE-1876-147, La Fermière (aquarelle)
Country views with fields and harvest scenes: Jean-Baptiste Millet depicted many landscapes depicting fields (many with haystacks) and harvest scenes. Many of these themes Millet exhibited in 1876 (2IE-1876), at the Salon (=S / SdAF) or were sold at Hôtel Drouot (=HD).
HD1874/03/07-49, Le labour; sépia
2IE-1876-146, Le labourage (sépia rehaussée)
2IE-1876-144, Le pré
HD1888/01/23-74, Les Blés, aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-65, Plaine de Macherin; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-48, La Plaine en été; aquarelle
S1875-2572, La moisson; aquarelle
S1878-3488, Pendant la moisson; aquarelle
S1874-2384, Après la moisson; aquarelle
S1875-2571, Vieux moulin de la plaine de Choilly; aquarelle
SdAF-1880-5409, Moulin, environs de Fontainebleau; aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-72, Pommiers dans la plaine; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-59, Pommier dans les roches; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-67, Roches et pommiers; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-70, Les Roches de Saint-Martin; drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-54, Bouleaux près du Jean-de-Paris (forêt de Fontainebleau); drawing / sketch
HD1874/03/07-60, Le Bois de la Plante-à-Biau (Barbizon); drawing / sketch
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Country side, gravure, 12×7, Leboncoin.fr (iR10;aR4)
Marines:
Jean-Baptiste Millet sometimes depicted river views / ponds / seaviews and boats. Some of these themes Millet exhibited in 1876 (2IE-1876), at the Salon (=S / SdAF) or were sold at Hôtel Drouot (=HD). Most of them also depicted washerwomen and watermills. Some seaviews were (probably) made near Gruchy; these you will find above.
HD1874/03/07-57, Lavandières; drawing / sketch
SdAF-1880-5408, Une laveuse; aquarelle
2IE-1876-141, Moulin à eau (aquarelle)
HD1877/01/27-68, Moulin à eau, aquarelle
HD1874/03/07-55, Bords de rivière; drawing / sketch
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Village by the water, wc, 17×13, 2023/02/23 (iR86;iR10;iR85)
Figure paintings:
Jean-Baptiste Millet regularly depicted small figures in the fields, as a shepherd or near a farm. These you will find above. Sometimes these figures were more prominent. These you will find here. Some were made after paintings of his older brother Jean-François Millet. A single figure painting Millet exhibited in 1876 (2IE-1876) and at the Salon (=S).
2IE-1876-147, La Fermière (aquarelle)
S1875-2570, L’aumône; aquarelle
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbr, Four persons sitting in the fields, dr, 18×18, A2019/10/11 (iR86;iR10;iRx)
Jean-Baptiste Millet: 18xx, Sbl, Les cousettes sur un banc public, dr, 15×13, A2020/03/12 (iR11;iR10;iR41;iR86)
