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Fig. 30. The Holy Night. Correggio. Dresden Gallery
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THE GLEANERS
Jean François Millet (1814-1875)
illet was a French peasant boy—very poor. He says his grandmother would come into his room early in the morning and call:
"Awake, my little François; if you only knew how long a time the birds have been singing the glory of the good God!"
He would insist when he was helping in the fields that there was beautiful color over the plowed ground, and when the other fellows laughed at him, he would say: