Rousseau And Millet

Rousseau and Millet were very unlike, as one may iuf er froni their work. Rousseau was essentially a landscape painter, and it was in the woods that he found nis favorito themes. The splendors of the setting smi or sheltered nooks in the woods were subjects he was fond of painting. Beautif ui eiïects like these enraptured him, and naturally he sought to reproduce them. Millet, like Rousseau, was au adniirer of the grandeur and richness of nature, but he was more deeply moved by another sentiment. In his mind it was man who played the principal part, and to his eyes the landscape was the stage on which the drama of humanity was represen ted. The continued labor which the life of man demands, his sufferings, his pains as well as his joys, his pleasures, his weariness, his rest, his peace - these were the conditions that appealed most strongly to Francois' imagination, and it was these which he feit himself driven to paint. - Pierre Millet iii Centuiy.