two men standing in a field with an old woman looking at something on the ground
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The Angelus (after cleaning)

A man and a woman are reciting the Angelus, a prayer which commemorates the annunciation made to Mary by the angel Gabriel. They have stopped digging potatoes and all the tools used for this task - the potato fork, the basket, the sacks and the wheelbarrow - are strewn around them. In 1865, Millet said: "The idea for The Angelus came to me because I remembered that my grandmother, hearing the church bell ringing while we were working in the fields, always made us stop work to say the Angelus…

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