Sunday, April 12, 2026

Jean-François Millet
(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 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.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet


Potato Planters
1861
Oil on canvas
101.3 cm 82,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31621
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