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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-François Millet has received more than 945,379 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Jean-François Millet is the 58th most popular painter (down from 56th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from France (down from 154th in 2019) and the 15th 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 58 out of 2,023. Before him are Georges Braque, Fra Angelico, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Pissarro, Giorgione, and Artemisia Gentileschi. After him are Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Kazimir Malevich, Théodore Géricault, Alphonse Mucha, and Giovanni Bellini.

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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, Samuel Colt, Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Henri Nestlé, Hong Xiuquan, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1875, Jean-François Millet ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Johnson, Georges Bizet, and Ferdinand I of Austria. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles Lyell, Éliphas Lévi, Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and Moses Hess.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 156 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Pope John XXII (1244), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Henry II of England (1133), Petronius (27), and Évariste Galois (1811). After him are Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Georges Pompidou (1911), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), François Viète (1540), Jacques Cartier (1491), and Peter Abelard (1079).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 15. Before him are Jacques-Louis David (1748), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Gustave Courbet (1819), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), and Georges Braque (1882). After him are Théodore Géricault (1791), Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Gustave Doré (1832), and François Boucher (1703).

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