Labels:bulletin board | person | reckoner | road | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Millet Jean Francois: 1814- 1875 French painter who de picted the rural proletariat of France After apprenticing with the academician Delaroche Millet joined the Barbi- zon School His primary subjects were peaple without land or significant possessions. Although he clung to figure painting Millet assimilated the sensitivity to light and the colorist palette of the Fontainebleau landscapists Van Gogh was deeply maved Millet's laborers and sympa- thetic portrava. of rural peasant life and although he per- petually emulated Millet's spiritual embrace of the simple life he idmitted thathe could no replicate whade people lanc assimila ited landsca pists moved portraval ermulated admitted that