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Title: Jean-François Millet, peasant and painter;
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Sensier, Alfred, 1815-1877
Subjects: Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875
Publisher: London Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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ad unwillinglyplayed the part of a too prominent actor. He returned to hisdrawings — compositions of rustic scenes. I never can paint allI want to, he said to me. My life would not be long enough,and I must express, by some quicker and less complicated methods,all the subjects which remain in my mind from my own home,and from the part of the country in which I live. The drawings,indeed, are my only resource. Since picture-lovers despise mypaintings, I must try to find for these summary compositions peo-ple who will understand me and who can buy them. Some one proposed that he should do some religious pictureswhich could be photographed for sale. He thereupon drew the FHght into Egypt twice, full of mystery and rustic kindliness.Saint Joseph was seen carrying the infant Christ in his arms, likea precious treasure; the black night was only lighted by the haloaround the child,— a beautiful thought, which Millet rendered likean early master. He also made a Christ Rising from the Tomb,
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21 The Resurrection. PEASANT AND PAINTER. 163 In this drawing, Christ, glorified, springs toward heaven as if shotfrom a mortar; the guards, blinded, frightened, throw themselveson the ground, while the God-man, calm and powerful, finishes hisearthly role in a dizzying upward flight. The invention wassuperb and new. .A.9 Illustrations of Theocritus—Interest in Delacroix—hi Japanese Art—^Shepherds Bringing Home a New-born Calfy M ILLET soon abandoned these Biblical compositions, anddevoted himself to Theocritus, whose works a young friend,M. Chassaing, had sent him. He found here subjects of country life,and we shall see him criticise sharply the translator for his ignoranceof country things. The letter is addressed to M. Chassaing: Barbizon, July 20. Dear Sir : I have received the two books which you sent me, The-ocritus and Robert Burns, and I am doubly grateful, first, for your kind thoughtin sending them, and then for the pleasure which the works themselves havegiven me. I mu

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