Jean-François Millet

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Shepherdess with her Flock is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-François Millet, created c. It is held in the Musee d'Orsay, in Paris. Millet expressed a desire to paint a work showing a shepherdess with her flock as early as 1862.

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The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest.

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The Angelus is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants in a field bowing over a basket of potatoes, while saying a prayer, the Angelus. The prayer and the ringing of the church bell mark the end of a day's work.

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Peasant Women with Brushwood is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-François Millet, created c. It is held at the collection of the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The signature of the artist appears at the lower right: JF 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 Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes.