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December 29, 1999
Alexandra R. Murphy Jean-Francois Millet: Drawn Into the Light New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 192 pp.; 65 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300079257)
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Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, June 20-September 6, 1999; Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, February 10-mid-April, 2000.

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The American public has not given works by Barbizon artists star billing in a little over a century. Where once Americans were proud of themselves for having recognized Millet’s talents early, they are now harder to please. Since Impressionist art has risen to blockbuster fame, it takes a monumental effort to call attention to the considerable but subtle charm of what Millet referred to as “rustic art.” The subtitle of this exhibition, “Drawn into the...