National Gallery Millet: Life on the Land Exhibition Catalogue

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Special Gallery price £14.95 - RRP: £16.99Accompanies the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, 7 August–19 October 2025.Marking the 150th anniversary of his death in 1875, this publication presents Jean-François Millet as the foremost painter of French rural life during the nineteenth century. Born into a farming family in Normandy, Millet moved to the village of Barbizon in 1849, where he set about portraying the lives of rural workers. From the 1870s, these majestic, universal figures began to garner praise, going on to inspire such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dalí. Millet sensitively depicts labourers with dignity and solemnity in his many drawings, pastels and paintings. From his working practice and profound influence on British painting to an in-depth look at his most celebrated work, The Angelus, this book explores the life and career of an artist who declared the importance of the ‘human side’ in art. AuthorsSarah Herring is Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London.Simon Kelly is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri.