Millet

Millet by Percy Moore Turner is a biography about the peasant painter Jean Francois Millet. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Excerpt: «AMONGST the great painters of peasant life the name of Jean François Millet stands out prominently. A long interval elapsed betwixt the death of Adrian van Ostade and the birth of Millet, unbroken by a single name, with the solitary exception of Chardin, a painter who grasped the profundity of peasant life. In Holland and Flanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we find many painters who, whilst living the humblest lives themselves, saw in their surroundings such material for treatment as has handed their names down to posterity.»