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The Angelus
1857–1859 · huile sur toile (oil on canvas) · Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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Dusk comes down on a field, and two people stand still in it. The woman bows over her joined hands; the man has taken off his hat and holds it at his chest. Jean-François Millet paints the Angelus, the prayer the Musée d'Orsay describes as marking the Angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary, and the steeple stands small on the far horizon. Pitchfork, basket, sacks and barrow wait where the work stopped; the Orsay reads the scattered tools as keeping the scene in labour. Millet said the idea came from his grandmother, who always made the family stop work to say the Angelus. The canvas was ordered around 1857 by the American Thomas Gold Appleton, who never took delivery. The light goes down behind them, and whatever you are doing today can stop for one prayer as well.
Sources: Paused posture (hands clasped, heads bowed, tools set down) as the Angelus prayer, and Millet's own quote about his grandmother · Commission history: Thomas Gold Appleton (American) ordered the canvas but never took delivery; Millet reworked it · Base Joconde, notice 000PE002013, 'L'angélus', Jean-François Millet, Paris, musée d'Orsay, RF 1877 — Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine, Ministère de la Culture (France)