Chalet in moonlight

The painting depicts an idyllic night scene with a full moon shining on a pasture, where a shepherd and a dog guard a flock of sheep. They are inside a wooden pen in an open landscape. The sky is partially obscured by clouds and the atmosphere is peaceful and mysterious. The image evokes a sense of peace and harmony with nature.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is landscape. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). At the outset of his career, he refused the stereotyped concept of painting and became a free portrait painter. He influenced Impressionists through his selection of topics: he painted simple people, poor farmers and the humility of hardworking people. He loved the countryside where he lived, devoted a lot of energy for rural people. Millet’s paintings are characterized by an interesting, gold and melancholy light that gives his landscapes a religious character. The Angelus - church bells in the distance strike as two people say a prayer of thanks for the harvest (ironically, the Louvre auctioned this painting for an astronomical sum). Gleaners. The monumentality of characters achieved through simplification of the environment (which was later used by Seurat) is clamped from above by the horizon. The image probably expresses the oppression of peasants (especially women without voting rights) after 1848.