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Title: Jean François Millet; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter, with introduction and interpretation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s we have known the incarnation of thy Son JesusChrist by the message of an angel, so by his crossand passion we may be brought into the glory ofhis resurrection, through the same Jesus Christ ourLord. Besides this, after each couplet of the Angelus,is recited that short hymn of praise, beginning withthe words which the angel of the annunciation ad-dressed to Mary,1 Ave Maria. This is why thehour after sunset is so often called the hour of AveMaria. The English poet Byron has written of thissolemn moment: — Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour !The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oftHave felt that moment in its fullest powerSink oer the earth so beautiful and soft,While swung the deep bell in the distant tower,Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft,And not a breath crept through the rosy air,And yet the forest leaves seemed stirred with prayer. The atmosphere of prayer pervades the picture.The woman stands with bowed head and hands 1 Hail Mary ; see St. Luke, chapter i., verse 28.
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THE ANGELUS 41 clasped over her breast. Her whole body swaysslightly forward in the intensity of her devotion.Her husband has bared his head and holds his hatbefore him. Though he may seem somewhat awk-ward, he is not less sincerely reverent. The sunset light shines on the womans blueapron, gilds the potato sacks in the wheelbarrow,and gleams along the furrows. Farther away, thewithered plants are heaped in rows of little piles.Beyond, the level plain stretches to meet the glow-ing sky, and, outlined on the horizon, is the spire ofthe church where the bells are ringing. As the meaning of the picture grows upon us,we can almost hear the ringing of the bells. In-deed, to those familiar with such scenes in actuallife, the impression is very vivid. The friend towhom Millet first showed his painting immediatelyexclaimed, It is the Angelus. Then you canhear the bells, said the artist, and was content. The solemn influence of the picture is deepenedby the effects of the twilight on the plain

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