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THE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF COUNTRY LIFE – Jean Francois Millet

JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET 1/3 – A native of a village in the Normandy, who had two wives and nine children. He is regarded as an interpreter of the French realism of the late nineteenth century. Son of peasants, he began painting bathers, mythological figures and portraits. The influence of art of Daumier and Barbizon, helped to bring about a decisive …

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