The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

CHAPTER XXVI

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JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET

His importance, and the task left for those who followed him.--Millet's principle _Le beau c'est le vrai_ had to be transferred from peasant painting to modern life, from Barbizon to Paris 360