La femme au puits (Woman at the well)

Tuesday
On my way back from our women's fellowship group in Cély this morning, I stopped off in the village of Barbizon, to take a picture of another of the mosaics modeled after paintings by artists who were part of the Barbizon "school". This one is woman at the well by Jean François Millet. Millet was born into a prosperous and cultured farming family in Normandy in 1814 and died in Barbizon in 1875. After studying with local painters, he moved to Paris in 1837 and for two years continued his training under Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts. His early work consisted of portraits and then small mythological and pastoral scenes, but with The Winnower, exhibited at the Salon in 1848, he turned to the pictures of peasants and rustic life which became his theme for the rest of his life.

One year ago: First bike ride of the season