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• Millet Man with a Hoe
• 1860
• art that communicated to the masses
• common peasant  portrayed as heroic and noble (unlike the dramatic hero of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa or David's Oath of the Horatii)
• large, monumental figure

• Millet The Sower
• 1850
• lit from behind (contojuer)
• insprational, impassioned outcry versus urban sprawl
• faceless, timeless, appeals to masses
• large scale monumentalizes common man

• Millet The Gleaners
• 1857
• velocity of lines is slow and langorous
• majestic and sculptural
• intentionally anonymous

• Corot Forest of Fontainebleau
• 1860
• concordance of man with nature ("open window")
• stasis, tranquility, harmony
• soft, gauzy facture
• rhapsodic excitement

• Corot Boatman of Mortefontaine
• 1865
• dreamy, gauzy, sublime, ethereal
• classical beauty in stasis
• undulating curves of trees interplay with each other