Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (died 1875)

Jean-François Millet

French painter (1814–1875)

Jean-François Millet was a French artist 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…