The Angelus by Jean-François Millet, 1858
They've stopped for the evening prayer — the bell would be ringing from that little church on the horizon. Dalí was supposedly obsessed with this picture, insisting the couple were actually mourning a dead child, and an X-ray later turned up a painted-over shape near the basket. No one seems to agree what it was.
Erisava: I can smell the dirt and the grass. What's your take?
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