Title

The Angelus, c1860. Creator: Jean Francois Millet.

Caption

The Angelus, c1860. This drawing is a later version of Millet's best-known painting (now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris). A young peasant and his companion pause from their work to say the angelus prayer for the dead. Millet spoke of his intention to evoke the "music" of the distant church bells across the Chailly plain. His accomplished use of crayon is evident in the many shades of gray between the white of the horizon and the black of the peasant's hat.

Date

Jan 01, 0001

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B21_460

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,2Mb (2,9Mb) / 16,5in x 11,6in / 4960 x 3466 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe scenic harvest agriculture women woman people study job man men farming couple religious landscape arts class country French France religion agricultural art guy occupation continent museum European Christianity devotion prayer praying rustic harvesting scenery location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic vista profession studies labourer labourers concept Seine-et-Marne peasant peasants posture Working Class daily Life Realism devotional 19th century working-class Ile-de-France farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers Realist Roman Catholicism farmworker farmworkers nineteenth century rural agricultural worker artistic movement artistic school farm labourer genre scene navvy rural life social class TGN villager Barbizon School head bowed Barbizon Jean Francois Millet Jean-Francois Millet Jean-Fran?ois Millet Millet Jean Francois Regionalism Angelus Walters Art Museum JF Millet villagers art movement Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Millet Jean-Fran?ois 19th-century in prayer agricultural labourer Jean Fran?ois Millet black cont? crayon on beige moderately thick moderately textured wove paper