Jean-François Millet
The Noonday Rest
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artist:Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) French
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title:The Noonday Rest
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen on paper
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credit line:Sir James Lewis Caw and Lady Caw Gift 1940
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accession number:D 4109
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Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet
Born into a prosperous peasant family, Millet enjoyed a good education before being apprenticed to a painter in Cherbourg in 1833. In 1837 he was sent to Paris, and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as the pupil of the famous history painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856). Dissatisfied with academic...