The Angelus

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The Angelus is a famous 19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet depicting two peasants pausing in a field for evening prayer, emblematic of rural piety and realism.

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L'Angélus 1
The Angelus canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
artHistoricalContext Barbizon school
surface form: Barbizon School
associatedWith Barbizon school
surface form: Barbizon School
basedOn the Catholic Angelus prayer
collection Musée d'Orsay collection
countryOfOrigin France
creator Jean-François Millet
depictionStyle naturalistic
depicts a church steeple in the distance
a field
a man and a woman
a wheelbarrow
evening prayer
potato harvest
religious devotion
rural life
rural piety
two peasants
describedAs emblematic of rural piety
icon of 19th-century Realism
exhibitedAt Musée d'Orsay
surface form: Musée d'Orsay permanent collection
genre Realism
hasColorPalette earth tones
hasCulturalSignificance iconic image of peasant religiosity
symbol of French rural identity
hasSubject agricultural work
peasant man
peasant woman
hasTheme humility
peasant life
religion in everyday life
rural labor
spirituality
inception 1857
1859
influenced Salvador Dalí
languageOfTitle French
locatedIn Paris
location Musée d'Orsay
materialUsed oil paint
movement Realism
notableWorkOf Jean-François Millet
originalTitle The Angelus self-linksurface differs
surface form: L'Angélus
partOf French 19th-century painting
setInPeriod 19th century rural France
support canvas

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Jean-François Millet notableWork The Angelus
The Angelus originalTitle The Angelus self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: L'Angélus