Millet. Essais Durand-Ruel

Durand-Ruel

whose donation was the origin of the museum

deux villes chargées d’histoire

neither collective mentalities nor other aspects of the reality of time

constantly reinterpreted

Millet. Essais Durand-RuelThe name of Jean Franois Millet is linked to The Angelus, one of the most famous works of Western art, whose notoriety has distorted the view of the artist, too long described as a "peasant painter." A new reading of this unique painter is required. For this outstanding draftsman and luminous pastelist, art was a matter of emotion and interiority; his genius was to paint "true" figures from the rural world, from the Winnower to the Gleaners, but also