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Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa milɛ]; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became ...
Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. [1] Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it ...
Corot, Road by the Water, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas.Clark Art Institute Charles-François Daubigny, The Pond at Gylieu, 1853. The Barbizon school (French: école de Barbizon, pronounced [ekɔl də baʁbizɔ̃]) of painters were part of an art movement toward Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.
Man with a Hoe (French: L'homme à la houe), sometimes called The Labourer, is a painting by the French Realist painter Jean-François Millet, created 1860–1862.It is held in the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles.
Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735–1784), painter
Jean-François Raffaëlli (April 20, 1850 – February 11, 1924) was a French realist painter, sculptor, and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. He was also active as an actor and writer.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation: [wiljam adɔlf buɡ(ə)ʁo]; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter.In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. [1]