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Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted especially for his scenes of peasant farmers.
 
Millet was born in the village of Gruchy, in La Hague in Normandy and moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. After 1840 he turned away from the official fashion style and came under the influence of Honoré Daumier. In 1849 he withdraw to Barbizon to apply himself to painting many often poetic peasant scenes.
 
was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers. He was part of the movement termed "realism."
 
One of the most well known of Millet's paintings is The Gleaners (1857), depicting the poorest of peasant women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvested field, is a powerful and timeless statement about the working class. (The Gleaners is on display in Paris's Musée d'Orsay).
 
Picking up what was left of the harvest was regarded as one of the lowest jobs in society. However, Millet heroically depicted the women in a way where they take up the focus of the picture. Previously, servants may have been depicted in paintings, but usually in the background, with a noble or king being the main focus. The light shines off the front two women's shoulders as they carry out their work. Behind them, the field stretches into the distance NOT BATHED in golden light, with a wide, magnificent sky. The forms of the three figures themselves, almost silhouetted against the lighter field, show balance and harmony. By turning this picture of three women working in the field into an image which would usually have been reserved for the nobility, Millet may have been saying something about the way that any labour is noble and beautiful.
 
 
 
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