Estelle M. Hurll 
Jean Francois Millet 
A Collection of Fifteen Pictures, and a Portrait of the Painter, With Introduction and Interpretation

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.