Millet was considering the idealised nudes of the academic painters & sought to create an honest version. The Goose Girl (c1863), A Winnower (1866-8), the Reaper (c1866-8) & Path with Chestnut Trees nr Cusset (c1867)

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Millet painted the The Gleaners (1857). He wanted to paint the quiet dignity of the peasant & imbue that with religious meaning. The Infant (1858) & Woman Grazing her Cow (1858) & Paysans Chargeant du Blé dans un Charrette (1854-8)

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20 janvier 1875 : décès de (prononcé [mi'le]), peintre réaliste et dessinateur, fondateur de l’école de Barbizon, célèbre pour sa représentation du monde paysan. Il a inspiré des écrivains comme dans "La Terre" https://t.co/H6RLFXDEur

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'The Potato Diggers,' is one of Paul Henry's most accomplished works. Henry went to Achill Island for the first time in August 1910 and like Millet, he wanted to paint a scene of life as it really was.

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Vincent van Gogh
Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet)
1890

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Vincent van Gogh - Noon: Rest from Work after Jean-Francois Millet 1890

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Many of the paintings of feature diggers, sowers, reapers and workers of the land. The theme of the laborer had been celebrated by Millet & other painters before Van Gogh but Vincent modernized it stylistically and conceptually. Van Gogh gave new stature to labor itself.

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Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields, 1864

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Hayao Miyazaki also directly references the Emishi people in the film, Princess Mononoke. They are even lesser known than the Ainu and were known for their horsemanship, archery, and cultivation of millet and rice. One of the main characters, Ashitaka, is a banished "prince".

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31 décembre 1708
Mort à Québec du jésuite Pierre Millet. Missionnaire, diplomate et politicien, son habileté fut telle qu'une nation iroquoise (les Onnéiouts) fit de lui un de ses chefs civils sous le nom de Odatsighta. Il laissa de nombreux écrits sur la société iroquoise.

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La vita del popolo riveste una dignità fino allora sconosciuta,la rivoluzione permette a Millet ,a Courbet ed altri di celebrare la rivoluzione sociale ritraendo immagini inedite della vita rurale. La stessa atmosfera troviamo nell'intimità della vita familiare

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Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French artist

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Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French artist

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Merry Christmas! 🎁
Hope you left some millet out for Santa Hilda...

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...Also, @/ShuviChamillet turned me into a padoru.

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que descanséis.

Jean-François Millet - The Sheepfold, Moonlight.

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zebra finchies with millet!

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