Jean-François Millet (artist)

The son of farmers, Jean-François Millet was devoted to cataloguig aspects of peasant life and preferred the village existence near the Forest of Fontainebleau to the art establishment of Paris. By the late 1870s, Millet and the like-minded painters known as the Barbizon group were gaining acceptance in exhibitions, with collectors, and in the eyes of the young impressionists, who admired the naturalness of their landscapes.