Jean-Francois
Millet was born on October 4, 1814, in Gruchy, a tiny
hamlet linked to Greville-Hague, the next village 9 kilometers
west from Cherbourg. He was the second child of a line
of eight. Trained with an academic painter in Paris, Millet
devoted his early work to portraits and erotic nudes.
He was sensitive to the changes brought about by the increasing
urbanisation and industrialisation of France, and he was
particularly inspired by the social issues raised by the
Revolution of 1848. Thereafter he turned to scenes of
peasants labouring, endowing them with heroic form adapted
from the art of the past. Millet was not one of those
who could live a quiet and monotonous single life on their
own. When Millet died in 1875, he was buried at Barbizon,
next to Théodore Rousseau.
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