In 1984, scientists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston x-rayed Millet's 1870 painting The Young Sherpherdess looking for minor changes, and discovered that it was painted over Captivity.

The disparity between the apparent value of the painting and the poor estate of Millet's surviving family was a major impetus in the invention of the droit de suite, intended to compensate artists or their heirs when works are resold.

* Jean François Millet's painting The Angelus ( L ' Angélus ) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France.

The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, Millet's most ambitious work at the time, was unveiled at the Salon of 1848, but was scorned by art critics and the public alike.

Hunt owned many canvases by Millet, including Millet's The Sower, for which Millet somewhat unwillingly accepted a payment of $ 60 from Hunt.

Fort Frontenac was attacked by Iroquois forces in 1689, and the Indians requested Millet's presence among their dying men.

In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853 ; they would have nine children, and remain together for the rest of Millet's life.

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

Appleton previously studied with Millet's friend, the Barbizon painter Constant Troyon.

Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800, 000 gold francs.

Despite mixed reviews of the paintings he exhibited at the Salon, Millet's reputation and success grew through the 1860s.

Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Claude Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy ; his structural and symbolic content influenced Georges Seurat as well.

" Many important feminist works, such as Koedt's essay The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm ( 1970 ) and Kate Millet's book Sexual Politics ( 1970 ), emerged during this time and in this milieu.

When it comes to capturing social reality, his work has much of the power and authenticity of Jean-François Millet's.

More generally, humanities scholar Camille Paglia has described Millet's scholarship as deeply flawed, declaring that " American feminism ’ s nose dive began " when Millet achieved prominence.

On his return in 1855 he painted some of his most handsome canvases, all reminiscent of his life in France and of Millet's influence.

Millet's body was recovered after the sinking and was buried in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

By 1908, Millet's first councillors were elected.

In a related vein, Catherine Millet's 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M. gained much press for its frank exploration of the author's sexual experiences.

No autorisation of use is allowed without Mr. Georges Millet's approval.

No autorisation of use is allowed without Mr. Georges Millet's approval.

The Last Supper ( or L ' Ultima Cena ) is a late 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan.

Historians speculate that Courbet's erotic painting of her as L ' Origine du monde led to the breakup of the friendship between Whistler and Courbet.

1906 postcard of painting by W. L.

In May 2004, an oil painting by Villon dated 1913 entitled " L ' Acrobate " and measuring 39 ¼ by 28 ¼ inches sold at Sotheby's for $ 1, 296, 000 ( US dollars ).

Portrait of Jo ( La belle Irlandaise ), 1865-1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, a painting of Joanna Hiffernan, the probable model for L ' Origine du monde and for Sleep.

From 1885 to 1887 Pater published four new imaginary portraits in Macmillan's Magazine, each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art – ' A Prince of Court Painters ' ( 1885 ) ( on Watteau and Jean-Baptiste Pater ), ' Sebastian van Storck ' ( 1886 ) ( 17th-century Dutch society and painting, and the philosophy of Spinoza ), ' Denys L ' Auxerrois ' ( 1886 ) ( the medieval cathedral-builders ), and ' Duke Carl of Rosenmold ' ( 1887 ) ( the German Renaissance ).

A depiction of a goði leading the people in sacrificing to an idol of Thor in this painting by J. L.

Subsequently Shea ranged all over the L. A. Basin, painting houses and teaching ESL to adults by night.

His most famous painting is probably The Caress (" L ' Art ou Des Caresses ").

Octave Penguilly L ' Haridon's 1859 painting Les Petites mouettes (" Little Gulls ") ( 1858, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes ) depicts the island.

The painting originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post magazine ; " Luke " would feature on the cover of every P. P. L.

The colliery, which was the subject of a painting by L. S. Lowry, closed during the 1980s, and its former site is now a country park.

A 19th century painting depicting the " combat of the thirty " ( Octave Penguilly L ' Haridon, 1857 )

Edgar Degas's painting of an absinthe drinker, entitled ' L ' absinthe '.

:* Lowry, L. S .-1 painting ;

According to numismatic historian Walter Breen, " both obviously derive from Archibald Willard's 1876 painting Spirit of ' 76 ," a painting which numismatic author David L. Ganz suggests that both undoubtedly saw sometime in their lives.

The belt is represented in a number of artistic creations, such as the illustration Le Vieux de ' 37 by Henri Julien, the painting L ' Assemblée des six-comtés by Charles Alexander Smith and the song Mon Pays, suivi du Reel des Aristocrates from néo-trad musical band Les Cowboys Fringants.

Zola presents a fictionalised version of the painting and the controversy surrounding it in his novel L ' Œuvre ( The Masterpiece ).

" D ` un Losange à L ` autre ", unique wall painting at Hudiksvallsgatan 8 in Stockholm

* Cover painting: D. L.

La belle Irlandaise ( Portrait of Jo ) by Courbet, a painting of Joanna Hiffernan, the probable model for L ' Origine du monde.

Towards the end of the Second World War the painting was looted by Soviet troops but ransomed by Hatvany who, when he emigrated, was allowed to take only one art work with him, and he took L ' Origine to Paris.