Millet Jean Francois (1814 – 1874) – French painter rural life. The son of a peasant, he spent his youth among the rural nature, helping his father in his farm and field work. Only 20 years old, he began studying painting at Cherbourg in little-known artists Mushelya and Langlois. On the advice of the latter and collected funds to them, arrived in 1835 in Paris, where he enrolled as a pupil of P. Delaroche, but two years later threw his mentor and, having married, was to make images of naked women in a spirit of Diaz, shepherdesses, shepherds, or Bathers in the style of Boucher and Fragonard. The first pictures of the them in the Parisian salon Lesson drive "(1844)," Thrush "(1844)," Oedipus, tied to a tree "(1845) and" Jews in Babylonian captivity "(1845), were no better than ordinary food then dominant direction franz. painting. But since 1848 he broke all ties with this direction and, having moved from Paris to Barbizon, near Fontainebleau, almost without a break there and rarely even being in the capital, gave himself up exclusively reproduction of rural scenes, close friends in his youth – the peasants and peasant women at different points in their working lives. Painting it in this way, simple in composition, full of pretty sketchy, no particulars of manufacturing drawings and statements without details, but appealing in its simplicity and the unvarnished truth, imbued with a sincere love for the working folk, long unable to find a proper recognition of the public. He began to enter into prominence only after the Paris World Exposition 1867, which brought him more angry. medal. Since then, his reputation as a first-class artist who has brought a new, live stream in the French art has grown exponentially, so that by the end of the life of M. His paintings and drawings, for which he once received a very modest money has already sold ten thousand francs. After his death, speculation, taking advantage of an even more heightened fashion on his work, brought their prices up to incredible sizes. For example, in 1889, at auction collection Secretan, his small picture: "Evening bells" (Angelus) was sold to American art association in excess of half a million francs. In this picture, one of the best works by the plots of the peasant life belong to "The Sower", "waking the sleeping child of", "Sick Child", "newborn lamb," "Tree Grafting", "End of the day", "Threshing" "Return to the farm", "Spring" (in the Louvre Museum in Paris) and collector ears "(ibid.). The Museum of Imperial. Aqd. Hood. in St. Petersburg. among paintings Kushelevskoy galleries, there is a sample of paintings AM – painting "The Return from the forest."
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