Millet: Life on the Land In-Person
An Art Talk With Professor Thomas Germano
The Sower, Woodcutters, a Shepherdess, The Gleaners: These are the subjects that made French artist Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) famous. 2025 marked the 150th anniversary of the artist’s death. Born into a farming family in Normandy, Millet moved to the village of Barbizon in 1849 where he put the people who spent their life working on the land, often the poorest of the poor in 19th century France, at the heart of his work. He knew these people and his realistic, unsentimental approach to painting them was completely new. Millet captured peasant non-entities, bestowing a dignity in the working people of his age. Admired and copied by Vincent van Gogh, Millet also inspired Impressionists and Post-Impressionist artists including Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro.
- Date:
- Tuesday, January 20, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Gold Hall
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Lifelong Learning