jean-francois millet The Gleaners, 1857. Mus??e d'Orsay, Paris. The Gleaners, French Realist Painter, 1814-1875
.was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and realism movements.