A sower, a woodcutter, a shepherdess. These are the subjects that made French artist Jean-Francois Millet famous. Born in 1814, Millet was one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France and is known for his realistic paintings that focus on the people who spent their lives working the land, often the poorest of the poor in 19th-century France. The combination of subject matter and the effects of light and tone saw Millet's popularity skyrocket in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Admired and copied by Vincent van Gogh, Millet inspired Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists including Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro with works such as The Angelus (1857-1859) - now in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris - an iconic painting that testifies to the dignity of a world still little told in the art of his time.
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