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, no date. Addressed from the famed village of Barbizon, an untranslated handwritten letter to fellow painter Theodore Rousseau, mentioning his need to frame a painting for collector Paul Tesse, his issues with Rousseau’s common-law wife, Eliza Gros, and promising a private meal between the two friends. In fine condition. Eliza Gros, or, as she was known, Madame Rousseau, was an impoverished, infirm young woman from the region of Franche whom Rousseau called his ‘poor bird beaten by the winds.’
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