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Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching

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Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching
Jean-Francois Millet (1814- 1875) French, Etching 19th Century
This etching by Jean--Francois Millet is titled L’Angelus and depicts two peasants during
the potato harvest in Barbizon, with a view of the local church tower in the background.
Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in France. He
was very familiar with farming life because he lived in a farming community, and as the
eldest son, he had to help his father with the farm-work. It is based on a painting he did
in 1857 entitled L’Angelus and displayed at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The painting
was commissioned by an American art collector in Boston, but the purchaser never
came to collect it, so in 1859 Millet added a steeple and changed the title of the work
from Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus. The painting finally went on public
display in 1865. The etching itself is printed in gray / brown ink on thin India paper; it is
exquisite and protected by tissue guard on top of the etching. The overall size is 12 1/4
x 15 in. wide and the sight size is 8 3/16 x 9 3/4 in. wide.
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