Editing Jean-François Millet (section)

===Youth===
[[File:Jean-François Millet - The Sheepfold, Moonlight - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Sheepfold''. In this painting by Millet, the waning Moon throws a mysterious light across the plain between the villages of Barbizon and Chailly.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Sheepfold, Moonlight |url=http://art.thewalters.org/detail/24760 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725002233/http://art.thewalters.org/detail/24760 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |access-date=1 August 2022 |publisher=[[The Walters Art Museum]]}}</ref> The Walters Art Museum.]]
Millet was the first child of Jean-Louis-Nicolas and Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, members of the farming community in the village of Gruchy, in [[Gréville-Hague]], Normandy, close to the coast.<ref name="Murphy, p.xix">Murphy, p.xix.</ref> Under the guidance of two village priests—one of them was vicar Jean Lebrisseux—Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors. But soon he had to help his father with the farm work,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/jeanfranoismil00sens his biographer Alfred Sensier, p. 34]</ref> because Millet was the eldest of the sons. So all the farmer's work was familiar to him: to mow, make hay, bind the sheaves, thresh, winnow, spread manure, plow, sow, etc. All these motifs returned in his later art.

In 1833, his father sent him to [[Cherbourg]] to study with a portrait painter named Bon Du Mouchel.<ref name="GroveArtOnline"/> By 1835 he was studying with [[:fr:Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville|Théophile Langlois de Chèvreville]],<ref name="GroveArtOnline">McPherson, H. (2003). Millet, Jean-François. ''Grove Art Online''.</ref> a pupil of [[Baron Gros]], in [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]]. A stipend provided by Langlois and others enabled Millet to move to Paris in 1837, where he studied at the {{lang|fr|[[École des Beaux-Arts]]|italic=no}} with [[Paul Delaroche]].<ref name=HF>Honour, H. and J. Fleming, p. 669.</ref> In 1839, his scholarship was terminated, and his first submission to the [[Paris Salon|Salon]], ''Saint Anne Instructing the Virgin'', was rejected by the jury.<ref name="Pollock_21">Pollock, p. 21.</ref>