Jean-François Millet

1814–1875 · Realism

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.

39 paintings

• Woman Feeding Chickens (1846-48)
• Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields (1864)
• The Keeper of the Flock (1871–74)
• The Little Shepherdess (1868–72)
• In the Auvergne (c. 1866–69)
• Young Woman (1844–45)
• The Woodchopper (c. 1858–66)
• The Sheepshearers (c. 1857–61)
• Self Portrait (1850)
• The Plain of Chailly with Harrow and Plough (1862)
• Return from the Fields (c. 1846–47)
• Monsieur Martin (1840)
• Man with a Hoe (1860)
• Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent (1841)
• La Brûleuse d'herbes (1859)
• La lessiveuse (1862)
• Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys (1872–73)
• Calling the Cows Home (ca. 1872)
• Garden Scene (1854)
• Haystacks: Autumn (ca. 1874)
• Shepherdess Seated on a Rock (1856)
• Woman with a Rake (probably 1856–57)
• Retreat from the Storm (ca. 1846)
• Cooper Tightening Staves on a Barrel (1850)
• Potato Planters (1865)
• Shepherdess Seated in the Shade (1872)
• The Sower (1850)
• Waiting (1857)
• The Winnower (1848)
• The Bather (1846/1848)
• Leconte de Lisle (c. 1840/1841)
• Portrait of a Man (c. 1845)
• The Gleaners (1857)
• La Fileuse, chevrière auvergnate (1869)
• The sheepfold, moonlight (1872)
• The rest of haymakers (1848)
• The loggers (1855)
• The Angelus (1858)
• Reisigsammlerinnen (1850)