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The Shooting Stars
MILLET, Jean-François (1814 - 1875)
[image: The Shooting Stars]
Media: oil on board
Size: 18.7 x 34.5 cm
Acquired: 1952; Bequest; Gwendoline Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 2476
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante’s Inferno which in one section describes the souls of the lustful being whirled endlessly around the skies of hell by a great gale. The epic poem was a common source of inspiration for artists and Millet here recognises this academic tradition. A later example is Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss.
This work is currently on display:
Gallery 11
National Museum Cardiff, level 4
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4 comments
Amgueddfa Cymru on 6 August 2010, 16:21
Dear Jane - Thank you for your comment. Please visit the Print on Demand pages of our website for details on reproductions of this image:
www.museumwales.ac.uk/picturelibrary
Jane on 6 August 2010, 16:19
I am wondering if it is possible to purchase a print of this wonderful painting? If so how do I go about it?
Amgueddfa Cymru on 18 November 2008, 09:56 (Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales Staff)
Dear Sarah, thank you for your comment -
The art galleries have a changing programme of displays which means that works are sometimes not on display. When the work is on display again Art Online will be updated with the gallery information.
sarah lewis on 18 November 2008, 09:23
I love this painting and have done since I first started to visit the museum many years ago, I wonder why it is no longer on display?
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