Jean-François Millet

Portrait of Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet was a French artist born on October 4, 1814. Millet contributed to the Barbizon School and Realist movements and died on January 20, 1875. Get notified when Jean-François Millet's biography is complete:

Retreat from the Storm

The Sower

The Gleaners

Woman with a Rake

The Angelus

The Sheepfold, Moonlight

Potato Planters

Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys

Young Shepherdess

Bird’s-Nesters

Haystacks: Autumn

I remember being awakened one morning by voices in the room where I slept.

Memories of Childhood in Gréville-Hague

Suddenly an immense wave rose up like a raging mountain, caught the vessel and carried it towards the beach.

The Shipwrecks

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Nudes teach you everything you need to know (to paint landscapes)

Théodore Rousseau

The blasted landscapes of bad luck

Portrait of Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet

A rebellious painter shocks the French Salon and courts his brothers wife

Portrait of Ilya Repin

Ilya Repin

Realism is not always nice

Portrait of Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins

America's uncompromising realist

The art of seeing

The blasted landscapes of bad luck

Théodore Rousseau Jean-François Millet

Julia Margaret Cameron

A military painter sponsored by the state—smells like propaganda

Ivan Aivazovsky

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