Gréville-Hague is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague. A hamlet of the village is the birthplace of Jean-François Millet, a notable impressionist painter.
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Once a farm and now a very charming museum where Jean Francois Millet was born and raised. Normally he is simply remembered as one of « Barbizon school », but he had such an understated yet singular style and vision, that Van Gogh called him his « spiritual father » and copied all of his paintings, and Salvador Dali was obsessed with the « Angelus » his entire life and even wrote a book about it !
The exposition is done with much love and care, the girl at the entrance is delightful and goes out of her way with information and guidance. The village around is dreamlike charming…. The only thing to improve are the English subtitles to a little video - they are incomplete and inadequate. And it would be great to translate other texts into English as well, so more people can enjoy they visit to this...
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Pour commencer, une hotesse qui n'est pas du tout interessee par ce personnage de haute affluence sur l'art, l'autre hotesse vulgaire et aggressive, ce fut une visite desagreable des le depart. Poussee a voir un film avec tres peu d'informations sur l'artiste, omettant sa vie avec sa premiere femme morte de tuberculose, omettant ses debuts dans la peinture en etant portraitiste des notables de Cherbourg, omettant son demenagement a Paris puis a Barbizon avec le developpement de l'ecole des peintres ...Corot, d'Aligny, de la Pena, Daubigny, etc...la suite a ete d'une tristesse de voir que les lieux ont ete completement modernisee a l'etage, la visite ilya 10 ans nous montrer encore les meubles et l'anciennete du batiment... la salle du bas nous montres une collection hideuse des articles reproduit avec l'angelus, dont on a l'impression d'etre a la croix rouge, puis pour en finir une salle (l'entree) transformee en magasin d'achat de souvenirs pour le touriste lambda. Il vaut mieux la maison de Millet a Barbizon ou les hotes connait l'histoire de Millet par coeur et sont des vrais...
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A lucky find on my way back to the ferry. His paintings were the focal point of my late grand parents kitchen in Ireland. Unfortunately they burned with the house 3 years ago. An emotional visit, but I'll take it as a sign as I return to my almost finished period building from the time...
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