1861. The Potato Planters painted.
Millet
exhibited at the Salon of the Champs Elysees:
Feeding
Her Birds.
Waiting.
The
Sheep Shearer.
1862. List of pictures painted:—
Winter.
The
Crows.
Sheep
Feeding.
The
Wool Carder.
The
Stag.
The
Birth of the Calf.
The
Shepherdess.
The
Man with the Hoe.
1863. Millet sent to Salon: Man with the
Hoe, The Wool Carder (see list of
works
in 1862), and a Shepherd bringing Home his Sheep.
1864. Millet exhibited at the Salon: The
Shepherdess, and The Birth of the
Calf
(see list of works in 1862).
1865. Completion of decorative pictures for
M. Thomas: Spring and Summer,
panels
8 by 4 ft., set in the woodwork; Autumn for the ceiling;
Winter
for the chimneypiece.
1866. Short visit to Vichy, Auvergne, Clermont, Issoire.
1867. Millet exhibited at the Exposition Universelle
(International
Exhibition):—
Death
and the Woodcutter (refused by the Salon of 1859).
The
Gleaners.
The
Shepherdess.
The
Sheep Shearer.
The
Shepherd.
The
Sheep Fold.
The
Potato Planters.
The
Potato Harvest.
The
Angelus.
Visit
to Vichy in June.
1867-69. The Pig Killers.
1868. Millet made Chevalier of the Legion of
Honor, August 13.
Journey
with Sensier in Alsace and Switzerland, September.
1870. Millet elected, March 24, juror for coming
exposition.
The
Woman Churning exhibited at the Salon.
Departure
for Greville on account of danger of remaining
in
Barbizon during the war.
1871. Return to Barbizon November 7.
1874. Order from Administration of Beaux Arts
for mural decorations in
the
Pantheon (Ste. Genevieve), Paris.
The
Priory painted.
1875. Death of Millet, January 20, at Barbizon.
[Footnote 1: To this was added later 600 francs from the General Council of La Manche, but both annuities were soon discontinued.]
[Footnote 2: The exact date of Millet’s severing connection with Delaroche is not mentioned by his biographers, though the circumstances are detailed.]
V. SOME OF MILLET’S ASSOCIATES
Companions in the studio of Delaroche:—
Charles Francois Hebert (1817- ).
Jalabert (1819- ).
Thomas Couture (1815-1879).
Edouard Frere (1819-1886).
Adolphe Yvon (1817- ).
Antigna (1818-1878).
Prosper Louis Roux (1817- ).
Marolle.
Cavalier, sculptor.
Gendron (1817-1881).