Jean Charles Millet (1892 - 1944): The Shepherdess

Jean Charles MILLET (1892 - 1944) The Shepherdess Oil on canvas Dimensions of the painting: 61 x 46 cm Signed lower right Painting in perfect condition. Old frame Offered Dimensions with the frame: 73 x 60 cm Sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity. Fast and careful shipping with insurance Jean Charles MILLET (1892 - 1944) Grandson of Jean-François Millet, son of Charles-Louis-Émile Millet, architect, he painted the landscapes of La Hague on several occasions: The sea at Gréville, The church of La Hague, The priory of Vauville, The church of Gréville... An impecunious painter, he became friends in 1923 with the copyist and art dealer Paul Cazot. He taught him the techniques practiced by his grandfather and authenticated more than forty oils and two hundred drawings falsely attributed to the Barbizon master. Many of them were later sold to Croal Thomson, director of the London gallery Barbizon House. Jean-Charles Millet was sentenced on June 17, 1930 to one year in prison for fraud and issuing bad checks by the Melun criminal court. On February 27, 1935, Millet was sentenced by the Fontainebleau Criminal Court to six months in prison and a fine of five hundred francs for affixing a false signature and breach of trust, a sentence confirmed by the ninth chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal on July 6, 1936. Imprisoned by the German occupier in the Royallieu camp in Compiègne (Oise), he was deported with the convoy of 2,152 men that left Compiègne-Royallieu (Oise) on July 2, 1944, bound for the Dachau concentration camp. Also on board the wagons were the Manchois: Robert de Bréville, Hamel, Lefebvre, Lelandais, Planque and Ronceray. He died in deportation in the Dachau camp. He is the father of Jany-France Millet and Danielle Millet. Source: Wikimanche.