Artist and public, and other essays on art subjects (1914)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd · leaf 76
sation is said to have taken placein 1849. There was nothing indecent orimmoral in Millets early work, and thebest proof that he felt no moral repro-bation for the painting of the nude—aswhat true painter, especially in France,ever did?—is that he returned to it inthe height of his power and, in… … JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET solved to do no more pot-boiling, toconsult no ones taste but his own, topaint what he pleased and as he pleased,if he starved for it. He went to Barbizonfor a summers holiday and to escape thecholera. He stayed there because livingwas cheap and the place was healthful,and…
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