Artist: Jean-Francois Millet classicalpainting.org
Start Date: 1857
创作完成: 1859
Style: Realism
风格: 风格 painting
Technique: oil
Material: canvas classicalpainting.org
Dimensions: 55.5 x 66 cm classicalpainting.org
Gallery: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Tags: arts-and-crafts
Millet had originally created this work for an American, Thomas Gold Appleton, who failed to take possession of the piece. Millet later changed the painting to include a steeple in the background and change the name from Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus. The painting changed hands many times, ending with a bidding war between France and America. The painting has also been a source of speculation, due to Salvador Dali’s insistence that the figures are actually praying over their deceased child. Dali was so insistent that the painting was eventually x-rayed, revealing a shape that looked like a small coffin, indicating that Dali may have been right, and that Millet may have originally created the painting with the couple mourning over their small child’s coffin. classicalpainting.org
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