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''The Angelus'' (''L'Angelus'') is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed in 1859. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.〔 Millet was commissioned by the American would-be painter and art collector Thomas Gold Appleton, who never came to collect it. The painting is famous today for driving the prices for artworks of the Barbizon school up to record amounts in the late 19th century. ==History== Millet sold ''The Angelus'' after his ''The Gleaners'' was sold at the Salon in 1857. About half the size, it brought him less than half the amount he sold ''The Gleaners'' for. ''The Angelus'' was eventually shown the year before Millet's death in Brussels in 1874, where it was greatly admired by Léon Gambetta.〔Foley, Susan. ("A Great and Noble Painting": Léon Gambetta and the Visual Arts in the French Third Republic ) (PDF format).〕 It shows two peasants during the potato harvest in Barbizon, with a view of the church tower of Chailly-en-Bière. At their feet is a small basket of potatoes, and around them a cart and a pitchfork. Various interpretations of the relationship between the two peasants have been made, such as colleagues at work, husband and wife pair, or (as Gambetta interpreted it) farmer and maidservant. Salvador Dalí insisted that this was a funeral scene, not a prayer ritual and that the couple were portrayed praying and mourning over their dead infant. Although this was an unpopular view, at his insistence the Louvre X-rayed the painting, showing a small coffin over-painted by the basket. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Angelus (painting)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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