“The Angelus”.
Artist: Jean-François Millet
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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”.
Millet was commissioned by the American would-be painter and art collector Thomas Gold Appleton, who never came to collect it.
The painting is famous today for driving the prices for artworks of the Barbizon school up to record amounts in the Late-19th-Century.
