"M. Millet, it is plain, understands the true poetry of the fields. He loves the peasants whom he represents. In his grave and serious types we read the sympathy which he feels with their lives. In his pictures sowing, reaping, and grafting are all of them sacred actions, which have a beauty and grandeur of their own, together with a touch of Virgilian melancholy."
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the Exposition Universelle, of 1855 was a very special exhibition in Paris (the first!), with great importance for he French artists - modern, as well as classical
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