Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — Last of the Millets. [ARTICLE]

Last of the Millets.

Probably the lust family link with Millet, tin* painter of "The Angelus,” has passed auay in the person of her brother, .lean Baptiste Millet. Like his more famous elder brother, he was an artist. The great painter himself introduced him to the sculptor Viollet de Due, under whom lie did much ecclesiastical sculpture. The figures on the tom I) of Francis 1. ana other decorations in the Madeleine are by’ the younger Millet. Later, while living with his brother at Barblzon, he took up painting and established for himself a position in water color.