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Jean-François Millet: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born October 4, 1814 • France
Died January 20, 1875 (aged 60) • France
Movement / Style Barbizon school • realism

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Millet, Jean-François
Painting by Jean-Francois Millet showing three peasant women bent over in a field, gathering leftover grain, with haystacks and workers in the distant background.
Millet, Jean-François: A Norman Milkmaid at Gréville
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Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña
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Charles-François Daubigny
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French painter
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Honoré Daumier
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Édouard Manet
French painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
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Edvard Munch
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