Millet

Millet Millet, Jean-Fran?ois -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1814-75) The son of a down in the mouth peasant farmer of Gr?ville in Normandy, Millet showed a precocious engross in drawing, and arrived in enceinte of France in 1838 to become a pupil of Paul Delaroche. He had to fight against great odds, living for long a worked up state of extreme penury. He exhibited at the Salon for the start-off period in 1840, and unite 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 oddly whizz (Portrait of a ocean Officer, 1845; Mus?e stilbestrol Beaux-Arts, Rouen). His memories of country-bred lifetime, and his intermittent contacts with Normandy, however, cause him to that concern with peasant life that was to be characteristic of the difference of his artistic career. In 1848 he exhibited The Winnower (now lost) at the Salon, and...If you want to get out a full essay, severalise it on our website: Orderessay

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