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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, ...

44192.jpeg © Musée d'Orsay, Dist. Grand Palais Rmn / Patrice Schmidt Millet Jean-François (1814-1875). Paris, musée d'Orsay. RF1877. Oil on canvas. 55.5 x 66 cm. The case of Jean-Fran çois Millet’s ...

"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 ...