At dusk in a potato field near Barbizon, a man and a woman stop work and bow their heads as a distant church bell rings the Angelus. Millet remembered his grandmother halting field work for the prayer. Reproduced in countless prints, it fetched a record price in 1889, when a bidding war between the Louvre and an American buyer stirred patriotic feeling in France.
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The steeple on the horizon belongs to the church of Chailly-en-Bière. Salvador Dalí believed the basket hid a child's coffin, but an X-ray did not convince scholars.
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