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Naive impressions from nature: Millet's readings, from Montaigne to Charlotte Bronte.(Jean-Francois Millet; Michel de Montaigne)

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From: The Art Bulletin
Date: 20070901
Author:Herbert, Robert L.

Historians feel lucky when they know what a painter read, and how much luckier if they find artists who copied out passages from their readings! These signal what the painters considered particularly important and therefore give them guidance in their analyses. Among nineteenth-century painters who provided such gifts, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugene Delacroix, and Vincent van Gogh come to mind. Now I can add to the list Jean-Francois Millet, the "peasant painter," for he copied whole paragraphs from several writers, including Michel de Montaigne, Bernard Palissy, Friedrich ...

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