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Jean-François Millet

1814 - 1875

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Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa milɛ]; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-François Millet is the 63rd most popular painter (down from 58th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from France (down from 156th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Painter.

Jean-François Millet is most famous for his paintings of peasants laboring in the fields.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-François Millet ranks 63 out of 2,023. Before him are Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Diego Rivera, and Kazimir Malevich. After him are Piero della Francesca, J. M. W. Turner, Andrea Mantegna, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Théodore Géricault, and Francisco de Zurbarán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Jean-François Millet ranks 2. Before him is Mikhail Bakunin. After him are Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1875, Jean-François Millet ranks 4. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Bizet, and Ferdinand I of Austria. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Éliphas Lévi, Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 186 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Racine (1639), Pope Innocent V (1225), Joachim Murat (1767), Nicolas Appert (1749), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), and Guy of Lusignan (1150). After him are Louis VIII of France (1187), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Georges Danton (1759), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Louis VII of France (1120), and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 16. Before him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Georges Braque (1882), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684). After him are Théodore Géricault (1791), Henri Rousseau (1844), Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), and Georges Seurat (1859).

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