Excerpt from Jean François Millet: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures, and a Portrait of the Painter, With Introduction and InterpretationIt 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.