Jean-François Millet 85 High Resolution Images

Jean-François Millet painted the people and landscapes of rural France, from labourers in the fields to quiet scenes of village life. His closely observed pictures of agricultural work, together with his drawings, pastels and landscapes, made him an important figure in nineteenth-century French Realism.

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Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is known for his paintings of peasant farmers and is often categorised as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is best known for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.

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. Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired knowledge of Latin and modern authors. But soon he had to help his father with the farm work, 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. These motifs recur in his later art.

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