Having spent much of his youth working on his father’s farm - Jean-François Millet always felt a deep personal connection to the land, and the life of agricultural workers.
And nowadays, he is rightfully known as a kind of quintessential “painter of peasants”.
Though it must be said that while his work is always of such a wonderfully consistent standard …
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