Millet, Jean François, c.1642–1679, French landscape painter

Millet or Milé, Jean François (both: zhäN fräNswä` mēlā`), c.1642–1679, French landscape painter, known as Francisque, b. Antwerp. The Arcadian and imaginary Italian landscapes that are attributed to him (e.g., The Storm; National Gall., London) are painted in the manner of Gaspard Poussin Poussin, Gaspard (gäspär` p
..... Click the link for more information. and may be seen in numerous European galleries. His son,

Jean François Millet, 1666–1732, was also a landscape painter.

Millet, Jean François, 1814–75, French painter

Millet, Jean François, 1814–75, French painter. He was born into a poor farming family. In 1837 an award enabled him to go to Paris, where he studied with Delaroche Delaroche, Hippolyte (ēpôlēt` dəlärôsh`)
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1849 he settled in Barbizon, where he executed such celebrated works as the Gleaners (1857) and the Angelus (1859), both now in the Louvre. He was associated with members of the Barbizon school Barbizon school (bär'bĭzōN`, bär`bĭzŏn'), an informal school of French landscape painting that flourished c.
..... Click the link for more information. by proximity and friendship rather than by stylistic approach or treatment of subject. As a painter of melancholy scenes of peasant labor, he has been considered a social realist. Millet's paintings are noted for their power and simplicity of drawing. His work is well represented in American museums, notably in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Bibliography

See M. H. Langlois, The Art and Life of Jean-François Millet (1980).