Jean François Millet - A Collection of Fifteen Pictures, and a Portrait of the Painter, With Introduction and Interpretation #267393

It was always his first aim to make his people look as if they belonged to their station. The mute inglorious Milton and Maud Muller With her nameless long ings had no place on his canvases. His was the gen nine peasant of field and farm, no imaginary denizen of the poets' Arcady. The beautiful is the fitting, was his final summary of aesthetic theory, and the theory was put into practice on every canvas.