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Born the son of peasants, Jean-François Millet was a scholarship holder at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but by 1849 he had already moved back to his home in Barbizon, where he painted his most important works. Millet quickly became the most important representative of French realism. The most famous of his works are dedicated to the everyday work and life of the peasants, are painted in soft, light brown tones and earthy colours and shine in a golden, soft light.
Millet said: "The theme of the farmers best suits my nature. At the risk of being called a socialist: the human side touches me most in art. The joyful side never shows itself to me. I don't know if it exists, I've never seen it. The most beautiful thing I know is the silence, the stillness, which is so delicious both in the forest and in the cultivated fields. It always gives me a dreamlike feeling. And even if the dream is a sad one, it is often a very delicious dream."
Especially famous are Millet's "The Grit Readers". Created in 1857, the painting shows three stooped peasant women working in the fields in the evening light. The "Angelus ringing", which shows two peasants praying over a basket of potatoes, caused Salvador Dalí such feelings of unease that he was able to get the Louvre to make an X-ray examination of the canvas to prove that Millet was in fact showing the burial of a child. When the sketch of a black box was actually found, Dalí wrote a book entitled Le Mythe tragique de l`Angélus de Millet. "The Sower" inspired Vincent van Gogh to create his own version of the subject in "The Sower before the setting sun".
Born the son of peasants, Jean-François Millet was a scholarship holder at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but by 1849 he had already moved back to his home in Barbizon, where he painted his most important works. Millet quickly became the most important representative of French realism. The most famous of his works are dedicated to the everyday work and life of the peasants, are painted in soft, light brown tones and earthy colours and shine in a golden, soft light.
Millet said: "The theme of the farmers best suits my nature. At the risk of being called a socialist: the human side touches me most in art. The joyful side never shows itself to me. I don't know if it exists, I've never seen it. The most beautiful thing I know is the silence, the stillness, which is so delicious both in the forest and in the cultivated fields. It always gives me a dreamlike feeling. And even if the dream is a sad one, it is often a very delicious dream."
Especially famous are Millet's "The Grit Readers". Created in 1857, the painting shows three stooped peasant women working in the fields in the evening light. The "Angelus ringing", which shows two peasants praying over a basket of potatoes, caused Salvador Dalí such feelings of unease that he was able to get the Louvre to make an X-ray examination of the canvas to prove that Millet was in fact showing the burial of a child. When the sketch of a black box was actually found, Dalí wrote a book entitled Le Mythe tragique de l`Angélus de Millet. "The Sower" inspired Vincent van Gogh to create his own version of the subject in "The Sower before the setting sun".
.jpg "First Steps by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Shepherdess with her Flock by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Spring at Barbizon, 1868-73 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean Francois Millet")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-126801).jpg "The Sower, c.1865 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Death and the Woodcutter by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Wood Sawyers by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Feeding the Young by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392640).jpg "Peasants Resting by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Birds-Nesters by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woman with a Rake by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The peasant family, 1871-72 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Harvest Scene by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Entrance to the Barbizon Forest, Snow Effect by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "View of Farm Buildings Across a Field by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Naked Peasant Girl Sitting on the Bank of a Stream by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sower by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woman Milking a Cow by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Man with the Hoe by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Nude Study by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Potato Harvest, 1855 by Jean Francois Millet")
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_19th_century_The_Hagu_-_(MeisterDrucke-983798).jpg "The Winemaker by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-948041).jpg "The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sower by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Haystacks: Autumn by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Angelus, Couple of Farmers in Fields by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Reclining Female Nude by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Jean-Francois Millet, 19th Century French Painter by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Bather by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Reaper by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-376321).jpg "Study of a reclining female nude by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Man with a Hoe by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Gust of Wind by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Dandelions by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Knitting Lesson by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woodcutter in the Forest by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Young Woman Taking Linens from a Shelf by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woman with a Rake by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sower by Jean Francois Millet")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-160727).jpg "Trees in a Forest by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Great Shepherd by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Return from the Fields by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Man with a Hoe. 1860-1862 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woman Carrying Firewood and a Pail by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The hay boaters by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The First Steps by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Going to Work by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Shepherdess and Her Flock, 1862-63 by Jean Francois Millet")
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_1858_Sun_039x029_m_Pari_-_(MeisterDrucke-972318).jpg "The Knitter by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Maternal Precaution by Jean Francois Millet")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-245078).jpg "Woman carrying a sack on her back by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Man with the Hoe by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-646873).jpg "Millet")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-70387).jpg "Peasants planting potatoes by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame Ono, 1844 by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-978278).jpg "Shepherd Tending His Flock by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "A Shepherdess with Her Flock by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "La becquee or peasant feeding her children by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Seamstress by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Winnower by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Wood Splitter by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Mother and Child by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Woman Carding Wool by Jean Francois Millet")
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_1845_Sun_081x_-_(MeisterDrucke-972537).jpg "Peasant Breastfeeding by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172736).jpg "The Artist")
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.jpg "Return from the Fields by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Retreat from the Storm by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Cliffs of Gréville by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Potato Planters by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Wood Sawyers, c1850, 1911 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Armand Ono, known as The Man with the Pipe, 1843 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Sower by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Wood Sawyers by Jean Francois Millet")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-123512).jpg "The Shepherd at the Fold by Moonlight by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Breaking Flax by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Peasant Leaning on a Pitchfork by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Horse by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Little Shepherdess by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The End of the Day, Evening Effect by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Knitting Lesson by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-960232).jpg "The Sheep Park, Moonlight by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Jean-Francois Millet, French Painter by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "The Plain of Chailly with Harrow and Plow by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Daffodils and Violets by Jean Francois Millet")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315549).jpg "First Steps by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait, c. 1850 by Jean Francois Millet")
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.jpg "Starry Night, c.1850-65 by Jean Francois Millet")
.jpg "The Gleaners, 1857 by Jean Francois Millet")
.jpg "Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet")
.jpg "Potato Planters by Jean Francois Millet")