Jean Francois Millet Gallery

Cartoon, The Angelus, WW1

Cartoon, The Angelus. A woman and her two children stop their work in the fields to pray, thinking of husband and father fighting at the front, as depicted in a cloud. Possibly a reference to a painting of the same name by Jean-Francois Millet. The Angelus prayer is traditionally said at 6am, noon, and 6pm every day, sometimes prompted by the ringing of a bell. Date: 1917

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First Steps, c. 1858-1866. Creator: Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)

First Steps, c. 1858-1866. In the 1860s Millet developed the practice of adding pastel to his black chalk drawings of peasants and rural life, with the hope that the addition of colour would make his monochromatic drawings more marketable. Between 1865 and 1869, he worked almost exclusively in pastel, producing more than 100 works. The taste for "enhanced" or "pastelled drawings," as Millet described them, grew among collectors and artists, and inspired a revival of the medium in the 1870s and 1880s. Here, in a fenced-in garden behind a house, parents encourage their child to walk for the first time. Delicate passages of blue, green, yellow, and red enliven the composition

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Pierre Claude Aimable Gachot, Naval Lieutenant, c. 1845 (oil on canvas)

XIR391198 Pierre Claude Aimable Gachot, Naval Lieutenant, c. 1845 (oil on canvas) by Millet, Jean-Francois (1814-75); 81 x 65 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France; (add.info.: depicted wearing the decoration of the Legion d'Honneur; Lieutenant de Vaisseau; formerly called 'Portrait d'un Officier de Marine';); French, out of copyright

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