Jean-François Millet’s L’Angélusis one of the defining works of the Realist movement. Painted in oil on canvas and measuring 55.5 x 66 cm, it is housed today in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Originally commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American collector who declined the finished work, the painting entered the French national collection and quickly became an enduring symbol of rural France.
