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Jean-François Millet

1814–1875 · French · Realism
Peasant painter
Jean-François Millet

He gave the stooped, sweating farm laborer the dignity of a monument, and critics smelled socialism in every furrow. A founder of the Barbizon set, his bent-backed gleaners and bell-stilled fieldworkers became the patron saints of rural labor.

Featured works
The Sower
The Sower
1850
The Gleaners
The Gleaners
1857
The Angelus
The Angelus
1859
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