Shepherdess with her Flock
Jean-François Millet · 1863
Jean-François Millet
French · 1814–1875
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. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.
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Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Canaan
Jean François Millet
Toledo Museum of Art
The Walk to Work
Jean-François Millet · 1850
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Gleaners
Jean-François Millet · 1857
Musée d'Orsay
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.
The Angelus
Jean-François Millet · 1858
Musée d'Orsay
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.
Peasant Women with Brushwood
Jean-François Millet · 1852
State Hermitage Museum
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.
Portrait of a Man
Jean-François Millet
National Gallery of Art
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