Jean-François Millet

1814–1875 · France · Realism

Jean-François Millet (4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Wikipedia

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Peasants at work in the fields, heavy, dignified figures bent over the earth in soft evening light.

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“The Angelus”, 1858 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Gleaners”, 1857 — Musée d'Orsay
“Death and the Woodcutter”, 1859 — Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
“The Potato Harvest”, 1855 — Walters Art Museum
“Peasant Women with Brushwood”, 1852 — Hermitage Museum
“Shepherdess with her Flock”, 1863 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Sower”, 1850 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Winnower”, 1848 — National Gallery
“Starry Night”, 1857 — Yale University Art Gallery
“Man with a Hoe”, 1860–1862 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Haystacks: Autumn”, 1874 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Le Printemps”, 1868–1873 — Musée d'Orsay
“Shepherdess Seated on a Rock”, 1856 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Beaked”, 1860 — Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
“The Walk to Work”, 1850–1851 — Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
“Peasant with a Wheelbarrow”, 1852
“Trussing Hay”, 1837 — Louvre
“The Goose Girl”, 1863 — Walters Art Museum
“La lessiveuse”, 1862 — Louvre
“La Brûleuse d'herbes”, 1859 — Louvre
“Buckwheat Harvest, Summer”, 1871 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Spring (Daphnis and Chloë)”, 1865 — Matsukata Collection
“Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent”, 1841 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“Portrait of Pauline Ono in morning dress”, 1843 — Musée Thomas-Henry
“Waiting”, 1857 — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Portrait of a Man”, 1845 — Museum of Fine Arts of Reims
“Summer, Ceres”, 1864 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
“Leconte de Lisle”, 1840–1841
“Monsieur Frigot”, 1841 — Finnish National Gallery
“The Little Shepherdess”, 1868–1872 — Art Institute of Chicago
“The Keeper of the Herd”, 1871 — Art Institute of Chicago
“In the Auvergne”, 1866 — Art Institute of Chicago
“The Sheepshearers”, 1857 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields”, 1864 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Girl Carrying Water” — Van Gogh Museum
“Woman Carding Wool”, 1856 — Van Gogh Museum
“Still Life” — Van Gogh Museum
“The Whisper”, 1846 — National Gallery
“The sheepfold, moonlight”, 1872 — Musée d'Orsay
“The rest of haymakers”, 1848 — Musée d'Orsay

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