PREFACE

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 to each, and working together in the labors shared between them. There are in addition a few pictures of child life.

The selections include a study of the field, the dooryard, and the home interior, and range from the happiest to the most sombre subjects. They show also considerable variety in artistic motive and composition, and taken together fairly represent the scope of Millet's work.

ESTELLE M. HURLL.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS.

March, 1900.

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

[PORTRAIT OF MILLET. DRAWN BYHIMSELF]

INTRODUCTION
I.[ON MILLET'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST]
II.[ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE]
III.[HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE PICTURES OFTHIS COLLECTION]
IV.[OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTSIN MILLET'S LIFE]
V.[SOME OF MILLET'S ASSOCIATES]
I.[GOING TO WORK]
II.[THE KNITTINGLESSON]
III.[THE POTATOPLANTERS]
IV.[THE WOMANSEWING BY LAMPLIGHT]
V.[THE SHEPHERDESS]
VI.[THE WOMAN FEEDINGHENS]
VII.[THE ANGELUS]
VIII.[FILLING THEWATER-BOTTLES]
IX.[FEEDING HER BIRDS]
X.[THE CHURCH ATGRÉVILLE]
XI.[THE SOWER]
XII.[THE GLEANERS]
XIII.[THE MILKMAID]
XIV.[THE WOMAN CHURNING]
XV.[THE MAN WITH THEHOE]
XVI.[THE PORTRAIT OFMILLET]

NOTE: All the pictures were made from carbon prints by Braun, Clément & Co.