Millet. Essais Durand-Ruel

Durand-Ruel

whose donation was the origin of the museum

A comparison of the different interpretations of the conquest and the image of Alexander the Great by five historians of the Hellenistic period

constantly reinterpreted

in paintings of a monumental character

Millet. Essais Durand-RuelThe name of Jean Franois Millet is linked to The Angelus, one of the most famous works of Western art, whose notoriety has distorted the view of the artist, too long described as a "peasant painter." A new reading of this unique painter is required. For this outstanding draftsman and luminous pastelist, art was a matter of emotion and interiority; his genius was to paint "true" figures from the rural world, from the Winnower to the Gleaners, but also