Jean François Millet

 

Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) was a leading figure of the Barbizon School and one of the foremost painters of rural life in 19th-century France. Born in Normandy to a farming family, Millet carried the values of hard work, nature, and spirituality into his art. Trained in Paris but rooted in his peasant heritage, he rejected academic convention to depict agrarian labor with dignity and gravity.

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