French Realist Painter, 1814-1875   Related Paintings of Jean-Franc Millet :. | The Gleaners | Couseuse Endormie | The Angelus | Autumn landscape with a flock of Turkeys | The Sheep Meadow Moonlight |
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Gillis Hafstrom
Sweden (1841 -1909 ) - Painter Gillis Hafström
Louis Hayet
French, 1864-1940.French painter and writer. He was largely self-taught and initially earned his living as an itinerant painter-decorator. In 1881 he met Lucien and Camille Pissarro while painting landscapes near Pontoise and through them met Paul Signac in 1885 and Seurat in 1886. After a years military service at Versailles, Hayet moved to Paris in the autumn of 1887. There he began to apply to his paintings Eug?ne Chevreuls theories of colour contrast with which he had become familiar by 1881. A gifted watercolour painter, he also experimented with the ancient technique of wax encaustic, painting on a prepared cotton that allowed light to filter through. The paint surface of works such as The Grange (Beauchamp, France, priv. col., see 1983 Pontoise exh. cat., no. 1) retains a vivid tonal freshness, while the subject of crowds of peasants gathered before the Paris agricultural market reveals a debt to Pissarro. During the second half of the 1880s he became obsessed with the notion of passage
Charles Rollo Peters
born in San Francisco in 1862 ,dead 1928