Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter, with Introduction and Interpretation

by Estelle M. Hurll

• Returned to Paris.

• Millet exhibited at Salon: the Milkmaid, the Riding Lesson.
• Death of Millet's wife, April 21, and Millet's return home for 18 months.

• Marriage with Catherine Lemaire late in summer, in Gréville.
• Visit in Havre in November.
• Arrival in Paris in December, and residence in the rue Rochehouart.

• Oedipus taken from the Tree exhibited at the Salon.

• Millet exhibited at the Salon the Winnower, bought by M.
• Ledru-Rollin for 500 francs, and the Captivity of the Jews in Babylon.

• Removal to Barbizon.

• The Sower painted and exhibited at the Salon with the Sheaf Binders.

• Death of Millet's grandmother, Louise Jumelin, at Gruchy.

• Death of Millet's mother at Gruchy.
• Millet exhibited at the Salon:

• Ruth and Boaz,