Moody painting

The Moody Painting is a painting in the introduced in. It is based on 's The Sower; it is one of two of Millet pieces to appear in the, alongside the Common 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.