Millet's The Angelus Framed Print in Ornate Gold Frame

A small framed reproduction of Jean-François Millet's famous painting The Angelus. A peasant couple stand with their heads bowed in prayer in a field at dusk. Their potato fork, basket and wheelbarrow lie at their feet, and a church spire is just visible on the horizon under a soft pink sky. The print sits behind glass in a cream mat, inside a handsome gold frame with twisted-rope edges and a beaded inner border. The back is finished in black textured board, with a fold-out easel stand for a shelf or desk and hooks for hanging. A small printer's label is on the back. It's in good condition.

The painting, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, shows a couple who have stopped digging potatoes to recite the Angelus, the evening prayer marking the angel Gabriel's message to Mary. Salvador Dalí became obsessed with it. He collected Angelus postcards and kitsch, painted his own versions, and was convinced the couple were really mourning over a buried child. When the painting was later X-rayed, a shape was found painted over beneath the basket, and people still argue about what it was.