150 years ago today, on January 20, 1875 (December 13, 1874, the French Barbizon painter Jean-François Miller passed away. "Self-Portrait of Miller" Jean-François Miller (1814-1875) was born in a peasant family in Normandy and planted fields in his youth. At the age of 23, he went to Paris to study under the painter Delaroche. His classmates in the studio looked down on him and called him a "rustic mountain man." The teacher couldn't stand him either and often scolded him: "You seem to know everything, but you don't know anything." "This young man from the countryside really hated Paris, saying that the city was a messy and deserted desert, and that the only Louvre was an" oasis "of art. When he walked into the lobby of the Louvre, he said in surprise: "I seem to have unknowingly arrived at an art kingdom. Everything here has turned my fantasy into reality." Miller was poor in Paris, and the blow and poverty of his dead wife overwhelmed him. In order to survive, he used sketches to change shoes, used oil paintings to change beds to sleep, and once drew signs for midwives to exchange some money. In order to cater to the sensory stimulation of capitalists, he also drew vulgar and low-level naked women. Once he heard people talk about him and said,"This is the Miller who can't draw anything but dirty nudes." This broke his heart. From then on, he made up his mind to no longer cater to anyone and resolutely follow his own artistic path. His first representative work in Barbizon was "The Sower". Later, he successively created famous works such as "Picking the Ear of Wheat" and "Late Bell". "Shepherd","Spring","Earthen","Late Bell","Young Woman","A Shepherd and Her Sheep","Return from Farming","Firewood Carrier","Garden","Norman's Milking Woman","The Man Leaning on the Hoe","Couseuse Endormie", GardenScene ", Before the Rainstorm","Sowing","Chrysanthemum","Peasantspreadingmanure","Louise Antoinette Feuardent"