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“Millet's fields hold a particular dusk — wheat gold turning to russet against a sky that has already accepted night.”
Jean-François Millet
Painter · Realism · 1814–1875
French Realist of peasant life whose Angelus and Gleaners worked in earth, gold dusk, and the russet of homespun cloth.
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“Millet's fields hold a particular dusk — wheat gold turning to russet against a sky that has already accepted night.”
French Realist of peasant life whose Angelus and Gleaners worked in earth, gold dusk, and the russet of homespun cloth.