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More than many artists, Jean-François Millet (1814–75) has had his reputation made by others. Responses to his work from both admirers and detractors offer a range of impressions, preventing a ...

Like Van Gogh, he painted starry nights. Like Monet, he painted haystacks. And like Dali – well, let’s come back to this one. (A hint: A praying peasant later takes on an ominous air.) Jean-Francois ...

Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet’s The Angelus, a calm brown ...

Jean Charles Millet, 32, of Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and ...

"The case of Jean-François Millet's 1859 painting 'The Angelus' is one of the strangest in all art," said Laura Cumming in The Observer. Depicting two peasants pausing work in a field, called to ...

Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), a foundational figure in French Realism, was born in Gruchy, a rural hamlet near Gréville-Hague in Normandy. The eldest son of peasant farmers Jean-Louis-Nicolas and ...