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Country Scene with Stile ~ Jean Francois Millet.

This idyllic scene draws the eye from the shady foreground to the gentle sunlit scenery beyond. In Country Scene Millet has playfully added geese struggling to squeeze through the twig barrier. The unusually high horizon line and the warmth of the light make this bucolic rural scene a universal favourite. Irish greeting cards for all occasions.

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Jean Francois Millet.

Jean Francois Millet was a founder of the Barbizon School of Art in France. Millet is a Naturalistic Realist painter in the Romantic style. Despite some success with his painting Millet never broke through in his lifetime.

In 1875, three weeks before his death, Millet married his wife in a religious ceremony. They had been married in a civil ceremony in 1853. After he died, despite his success he left his wife and nine children destitute. This spurred the invention of the droit de suite innovation. This allowed a certain portion of the sale or resale of an artist’s work to go to the artist’s family or heirs.

Millet is best known for his paintings of peasants at work. This peasant naturalism arose out of the 1848 Revolution in France, and against the backdrop of the rural depopulation that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. For his landscapes, he principally drew on his native Normandy.

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