Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus portrays something that, for many people today, is a foreign experience. A pair of farmworkers, a man and a woman, set aside their work-tools and bend in prayer—she, ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Like Van Gogh, he painted starry nights. Like Monet, he painted haystacks. And like Dalí — well, let’s come back to this one. (A ...

IN the Louvre there are only two unimportant works by Jean François Millet : a small landscape of the church of Gréville. and a study of some bathers, painted while the artist was still seeking his ...

In the early 1920s, Jean-Charles Millet was struggling to break into the Parisian art scene. The shadow of his grandfather, Jean-François Millet, weighed heavy. The elder artist’s unflattering ...

Jean-François Millet’s monumental “Man With a Hoe” (1860-62) has enjoyed popular acclaim as an empathetic image of hardscrabble labor in a rugged, agrarian landscape. Acquired in 1985 by the J. Paul ...

"The case of Jean-François Millet's 1859 painting 'The Angelus' is one of the strangest in all art," said Laura Cumming in The Observer. Depicting two peasants pausing work in a field, called to ...

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Like Van Gogh, he painted starry nights. Like Monet, he painted haystacks. And like Dali – well, let’s come back to this one. (A hint: A praying peasant later takes on an ominous air.) Jean-Francois ...

THE recent death of Jean François Millet has suggested the following reminiscences of a period when the writer enjoyed somewhat exceptional opportunities of intercourse with the distinguished French ...