Artworks · Jean-François Millet

Peasants Going to Work

1863 · Etching from a portion of the plate on ivory laid chine

Image: 12.1 × 5.5 cm (4 13/16 × 2 3/16 in.); Sheet: 14.3 × 10.7 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shepherdess

1863 · Woodcut with graphite additions on tan wove paper

27.4 × 22.1 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shepherdess

1863 · Woodcut on tan Japanese paper

Image/plate: 27 × 22 cm (10 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.2 × 33.4 cm (17 7/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Peasants Going to Work

1863 · Etching and drypoint on warm grayish wove paper

Image/plate: 38.4 × 30.8 cm (15 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 45.7 × 37.2 cm (18 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Peasants Going to Work

1863 · Etching in brown/black ink on thin laid paper; seventh (final) state

plate: 15 3/16 x 12 1/16 in. (38.6 x 30.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Digger

1863 · Woodcut in brown ink on laid paper; second (final) state; posthumous impression

block: 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 in. (14 x 10.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Peasants Going to Work

1863 · Etching in brown ink on laid paper; seventh state of seven

plate: 15 3/16 x 12 1/16 in. (38.6 x 30.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Digger

1863 · Woodcut on laid paper; second (final) state; posthumous edition

block: 4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (10.5 x 14 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Large Shepherdess (La Grande Bergere)

1862 · etching on laid paper

sheet: 14 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (37.15 x 28.58 cm)

National Gallery of Art

The Large Shepherdess (La grande bergere)

1862 · etching

National Gallery of Art

The Large Shepherdess (La grande bergere)

1862 · etching

National Gallery of Art

Study

1862 · Black crayon, on ivory wove paper, (discolored to tan), laid down on cream wove paper

24.1 × 21.8 cm (9 1/2 × 8 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Emptying a Pail

1862 · Cliché-verre on photo-sensitized tan wove paper

Image: 30.2 × 24.4 cm (11 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 24.4 cm (11 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shepherdess Knitting

1862 · Etching printed in dark brown on ivory laid paper

Image/plate: 31.9 × 23.7 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 43.9 × 34.6 cm (17 5/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Emptying a Pail

1862 · Cliché-verre on photo-sensitized tan wove paper

Image: 29.7 × 23.4 cm (11 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.); Sheet: 29.9 × 23.7 cm (11 13/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shepherdess Knitting

1862 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image/plate: 31.7 × 23.6 cm (12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 33.5 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shepherdess Knitting

1862 · Etching in brown ink on wove paper; only state

Plate: 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (32 x 23.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shepherdess Knitting

1862 · Etching in brown ink on laid paper; only state

image: 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (31.8 x 23.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Falling Leaves

1861 · pastel and conté crayon on wove paper

Unframed: 14 1/2 x 17 in. (36.8 x 43.2 cm)

National Gallery of Art

Calling Home the Cows

1861 · pastel and conté crayon on wove paper

Unframed: 22 x 16 1/4 in. (55.9 x 41.3 cm)

National Gallery of Art

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint on buff wove China paper laid down on ivory card

Image: 15.4 × 12.9 cm (6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Primary support: 18.1 × 15 cm (7 3/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 41.7 × 31.8 cm (16 7/16 × 12 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper

Image: 15.3 × 13.1 cm (6 1/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 21.1 × 15.9 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 32.8 × 24.4 cm (12 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper hinged on the left side to ivory card

Image: 15.3 × 13 cm (6 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 21 × 15.7 cm (8 5/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Primary support: 29.3 × 20.7 cm (11 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 34 × 25.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

Image: 15.4 × 13.1 cm (6 1/8 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 18.7 × 16 cm (7 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 29.1 × 23.5 cm (11 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint with remarques on ivory laid paper hinged on left side to cream card

Image/plate: 21 × 15.9 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Parimary support: 30.8 × 23.3 cm (12 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 36.8 × 28.6 cm (14 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Feeding Her Child

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 15.5 × 12.9 cm (6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 21.2 × 15.9 cm (8 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.7 × 17.7 cm (9 3/4 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cooling the Porridge

1861 · Etching on chine collé; fifth state of five

image: 6 1/2 x 5 3/16 in. (16.5 x 13.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cooling the Porridge

1861 · Etching on laid paper; fifth state of five

plate: 7 5/16 x 6 5/16 in. (18.5 x 16 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cooling the Porridge

1861 · etching (third state of five) on laid paper

plate: 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape, Vichy

1861 · Pen and brown ink over graphite. Blue, black and green chalk on laid paper (watermark: bunch of grapes)

Overall: 8 9/16 x 11 1/4in. (21.7 x 28.5cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape, Vichy

1861 · Pen and brown (iron gall) ink with brown and green washes over graphite on laid paper

4 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (11.3 x 15.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman Filling a Water Jug (Femme vidant un seau)

1860 · woodcut on laid paper

sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in. (18.1 x 13.65 cm)

National Gallery of Art

Pasture in Normandy

1860 · Black crayon on ivory laid paper

23.2 × 33.6 cm (9 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Maternal Precaution

1860 · Cliché-verre on cream wove photo-sensitized paper

Image: 30.2 × 24.2 cm (11 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 24.2 cm (11 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Maternal Precaution

1860 · Cliché-verre retouched with dark brown ink on cream wove photo-sensitized paper

Image: 29.7 × 23.8 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 23.8 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Flight Into Egypt

1859 · Black and brown Conté crayon, with pen and black ink and traces of black pastel, over gray washes, on cream wove paper, edge-mounted on laminated woodpulp board

31.7 × 40.7 cm (12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Olivier de Serres

1858 · Lithograph on ivory wove China paper

Image: 14.6 × 9.8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 23.5 cm (12 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Olivier de Serres

1858 · Lithograph on gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/primary support: 14.6 × 9.9 cm (5 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 27.6 × 17.9 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sick Child

1858 · black crayon; framing lines in black crayon

Sheet: 40.4 x 32.1 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.); Image: 32.9 x 24.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Sheepshearers

1857 · Oil on canvas

41.2 × 28.5 cm (16 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Framed: 54.6 × 40 cm (21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shepherdess Leaning Against a Tree

1857 · Black chalk, with charcoal, and stumping, on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

34.2 × 20.4 cm (13 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Wool Carder (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of Man Standing by Fence (verso)

1857 · Black chalk (recto) and red chalk (verso) on ivory wove paper

25.9 × 17.7 cm (10 1/4 × 7 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Departure for Work

1857 · Pastel and charcoal on cream laid paper

34 × 28.3 cm (13 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Evening (La viellee)

1856 · etching with burnishing on laid paper

plate: 5 × 10.7 cm (1 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 19.8 × 14.7 cm (7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Woman Emptying a Pail

1856 · Black crayon, over red chalk, on ivory wove paper (discolored to tan)

26.1 × 17.3 cm (10 5/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Vigil

1856 · Etching from a zinc plate in warm black on ivory laid China paper hinged at lower left corner to ivory card

Image: 15.1 × 11.1 cm (6 × 4 3/8 in.); Plate: 17.9 × 13.3 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Primary support: 25.6 × 18.1 cm (10 1/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 36.1 × 25.4 cm (14 1/4 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Vigil

1856 · Etching from zinc plate on ivory laid China paper

Image: 14.4 × 10.4 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Plate: 22.3 × 17.1 cm (8 13/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 21.7 cm (12 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shepherdess Seated on a Rock

1856 · Oil on wood

14 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (35.9 x 28.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art