He is known best for his oil paintings but he also produced pastels, Conté crayon drawings and etchings.
Jean-François Millet
Jean Francois Millet's painting The Gleaners with three women in long skirts and turbans bending over picking up straw from the ground with buildings in backgroundJean François Millet The Gleaners. Public domain. Musée d’Orsay
Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814-January 20, 1875) was one of the founders of the Barbizon School which flourished between 1830 and 1870. Millet moved to Barbizon in 1849, when he and his fellow artists were painting landscapes and scenes of rural life; Millet himself is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers. He is known best for his oil paintings but he also produced pastels, Conté crayon drawings and etchings.