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French painter (1814–1875) known as one of the founders of the Barbizon school. ALS in French, signed “J. F. Millet,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, August 7, 1862. Addressed from Barbizon, an untranslated handwritten letter to Madame Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, complaining that he had become ill from the oysters that she had provided him, and the ones that hadn’t spoiled were difficult to open. He maintains a friendly, if somewhat caustic, tone to the end of his letter. In fine condition.
A significant letter that dates to the period when Millet finally obtained significant critical approbation; in 1867, the artist showed his works The Gleaners, The Angelus, and The Potato Planters at the Exposition Universelle. Additionally, the recipient of this letter, Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, was the wife of his lifelong friend Felix-Bienaime Feuardent, a clerk in the library at Cherbourg. Millet famously painted the portrait of Madame Feuardent in 1841 shortly after her marriage to Felix.
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