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The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus , that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.
Millet's The Gleaners was preceded by a vertical painting of the image in 1854 and an etching in 1855. Millet unveiled The Gleaners at the Salon in 1857. It immediately drew negative criticism from the middle and upper classes, who viewed the topic with suspicion: one art critic, speaking for other Parisians, perceived in it an alarming intimation of "the scaffolds of 1793."
Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa milɛ]; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Jean-François Millet" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Along with Woman Pasturing Her Cow and The Gleaners, Man With a Hoe is a Millet painting that casts "a critical light on the conditions of rural labor under the Second Empire and explains [Millet's] sometimes marginal status in the regime's fine arts institutions." [7] The painting has long been seen to have a political and/or philosophical ...
Édouard Manet's painting Olympia is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy. [1] Jean-François Millet's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus) is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France. [2] The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum.