Jean Francois I Millet (1642-1679)

Artist Name Jean Francois I Millet (1642-1679)
Title Wooded Landscape with Diana Hunting
Description A original large French Old Master oil on canvas which is attributed to Jean Francois I Millet (1642-1679) and was painted circa 1675.  This large canvas is in good clean condition and depicts a wooded landscape with Diana hunting. Housed in a gilded carved 18th century frame. A delightful country house old master painting.
Provenance
 
South England Estate.
The Fine Art Society 1947
Sotheby London May 22nd 1987 lot 182
Christies South Kensington April 14th 1999 lot 371
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 30 x 25 inches
Frame Gilt gallery frame 40 inches by 35 inches
Condition Good condition
Biography Jean-François Millet, by name Francisque, (baptized April 27, 1642, [Belgium]—buried June 3, 1679, Paris, Fr.), French painter whose serene landscapes made him one of the most influential followers of Nicolas Poussin in 17th-century France. Millet is generally classed among the painters of Flanders because of the location of his birth, but his father was a Frenchman who, while on service with the prince of Condé in Antwerp, apprenticed his son to a painter there. Francisque left with the painter for Paris, where he settled in 1660 after marrying his master’s daughter. He was received as a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at Paris in 1673. Francisque’s paintings of Italian and Arcadian scenery, though derivative, were graceful and effective. Twelve of his most important landscapes in the Tuileries were destroyed by fire; and, though many of his pieces may still be found catalogued, a great number remain unknown and unacknowledged.
Price £12000
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