Millet

Millet Millet, Jean-Fran?ois -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1814-75) The son of a small peasant farmer of Gr?ville in Normandy, Millet showed a precocious interest in drawing, and arrived in capital of France in 1838 to become a pupil of Paul Delaroche. He had to fight against great odds, living for long a emotional state of extreme penury. He exhibited at the Salon for the first period in 1840, and married two years later.

At this time, the of import influences on him were Poussin and Eustache Le Sueur, and the type of work he produced consisted predominantly of mythological subjects or portraiture, at which he was especially whizz (Portrait of a Naval Officer, 1845; Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen). His memories of country-bred life, and his intermittent contacts with Normandy, however, impelled him to that concern with peasant life that was to be characteristic of the rest of his artistic career. In 1848 he exhibited The Winnower (now lost) at the Salon, and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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