Moody painting

The Moody Painting is a painting in the introduced in. It is based on 's The Sower, and it is one of two of Millet's works to appear in the series, the other being the Common Painting.

Authenticity
In and, there are no forgeries of this painting.

Real-world information
A pioneering work of realism, this oil painting, completed in 1850, shows a glum-looking peasant sowing seeds in a field. This image of poverty enraged the upper classes of France at the time, who criticized his work for showing how workers struggled- many paintings at this time expressed an idyllic middle-class life, full of color and warmth.

The Sower is currently on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.