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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 888,172 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Jean-François Millet is the 56th most popular painter, the 154th most popular biography from France (down from 137th 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 56 out of 1,421Before him are Georges Braque, Andrea del Verrocchio, Georges Seurat, Paolo Veronese, Ilya Repin, and Diego Rivera. After him are Egon Schiele, Artemisia Gentileschi, Kazimir Malevich, Anthony van Dyck, Giorgione, and Jackson Pollock.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 154 out of 6,011Before him are Charles V of France (1338), Jean Bodin (1530), Christian Dior (1905), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Évariste Galois (1811), and Pope Sylvester II (938). After him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Erik Satie (1866), Charles IX of France (1550), Charles Baudelaire (1821), and Francis II of France (1544).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-François Millet ranks 16Before him are Gustave Courbet (1819), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Georges Braque (1882), and Georges Seurat (1859). After him are Théodore Géricault (1791), Alfred Sisley (1839), Henri Rousseau (1844), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), and François Boucher (1703).