Jean-Francois Millet - A French painter - Realism Art

Описание: Jean-Francois Millet (1814 – 1875) was a French painter and part of the Realism art movement.

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Jean-François Millet (1814 – 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement.

Millet was an important source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Claude Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy; his structural and symbolic content influenced Georges Seurat as well.

Millet is the main protagonist of Mark Twain's play Is He Dead? (1898), in which he is depicted as a struggling young artist who fakes his death to score fame and fortune. Most of the details about Millet in the play are fictional.

Millet's painting L'homme à la houe inspired the famous poem "The Man With the Hoe" (1898) by Edwin Markham. His poems also served as the inspiration for American poet David Middleton's collection The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-François Millet (2005)

Some of his famous paintings

"The Sheepfold" In the painting by Millet, the waning Moon throws a mysterious light across the plain between the villages of Barbizon and Chailly. The Walters Art Museum.
Woman Baking Bread, 1854. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The Sower, 1850. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Gleaners, 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Angelus, 1857–59. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Calling Home the Cows, c. 1866, National Gallery of Art
Hunting Birds at Night, 1874, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Potato Harvest (1855) The Walters Art Museum