Jean-François
MILLET
1814 - 1875
France
Millet was born at Grouchy (Manche)
and was a pupil of Paul Delaroche
in Paris by 1837. For some years he
painted chiefly idylls in imitation
of 18th-century French painters. Becoming,
like Daumier, increasingly
moved by the spectacle of social injustice,
Millet turned to peasant subjects and
won his first popular success at the
Salon of 1848 with The Winnower.
From the following year he was chiefly
active at Barbizon and associated with
the Barbizon school of landscape
painters. His work was influenced by
Dutch paintings of the 17th century
and by the work of Chardin, and
was influential in Holland on Israëls
and on the early style of Van Gogh.
The Whisper
Jean-François MILLET
about 1846
The Winnower
Jean-François MILLET
about 1847-8
Landscape …, Jean-François MILLET
(Follower), after 1870