Jean-François Millet Pastel Allocated to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

GLASGOW.- A pastel of “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet is on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The pastel will hang in the Fragile Art space in the museum for the next four months. Glasgow Museums has been allocated the work in lieu of inheritance tax by the Government. The subject of the work is the angelus prayer which was said three times a day on hearing the toll of nearby church bells. It shows two workers saying their prayer [...]