Jean-François Millet
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Jean-François Millet 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 Rea
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1856–1858
The Sheepfold. In this painting by Millet, the waning Moon throws a mysterious light across the plain between the villages of Barbizon and Chailly. The Walters Art Museum.
Woman Baking Bread, 1854. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1850–1853)
The Gleaners
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The Gleaners is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.
Jean-François Millet
…peasant subjects, such as Man with a Wheelbarrow (1855) and Woman Carding Wool (1855–1857). This is one of the most well known of Millet's paintings, The Gleaners (1857). While Millet was walking the fields around Barbizon, one theme returned to his pencil and brush for seven years—gleaning—the centuries-old right…
Jean François Millet Gleaners Google Art Project 2
Etching of The Gleaners, 1855
Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875