Final resting place

Tuesday
My route to Bible study this morning took me through the village of Chailly en Biere, and I noticed the sign to the cemetery, and the burial place of the artists Millet and Rousseau, so on my way back home, I decided to check it out. As many cemeteries in France it is surrounded by a high wall. The two artists are buried next to each other. This is the gravestone for Millet.
Jean-Francois Millet was born October 4 1814 into a peasant community in the village of Gruchy, in Greville-Hague (Normandy). He studied first under the guidance of two village priests, acquiring a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel. He moved to Paris in 1837, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter. In 1845 Millet moved to Le Havre with Catherine Lemaire, whom he would marry in a civil ceremony in 1853; they would have nine children, and remain together for the rest of Millet's life. In Le Havre he painted portraits and small genre pieces for several months, before returning to Paris. Becoming increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice, Millet turned to peasant subjects and won his first popular success at the Salon of 1848 with 'The Winnower'. It was also about this time, in the mid-1840s in Paris, that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Theodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school of landscape painters, Barbizon being a neighbouring village to Chailly. He died January 20 1875 in Barbizon.
Millet was an important source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Claude Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy, and his structural and symbolic content influenced Georges Seurat. His life and works also inspired plays, poems, and further artistic endeavors by artists from Mark Twain to Salvador Dali. One of his most famous paintings was The Reapers, which can be seen depicted here in a mosaic form in the village of Barbizon.