This artist's most ambitious work from his academic phase, The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, was widely panned when it was unveiled at the Salon of 1848 and disappeared shortly thereafter. It was recently discovered that 
This artist's most ambitious work from his academic phase, The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, was widely panned when it was unveiled at the Salon of 1848 and disappeared shortly thereafter. It was recently discovered that this man's The Young Shepherdess is painted over the earlier Captivity. In another work by this artist, the moon silhouettes a farmer's upraised arm against a hazy sky. A similar effect is achieved in a different work: two figures scramble on the ground to gather up escaping creatures as two men reach up to knock down the swarming birds, one holding a torch that lights the scene. Those works are The Sheepfold and Hunting Birds at Night. This artist added a steeple to the background of another work after it was complete; that work depicts two figures who have stopped digging potatoes to pray. For 10 points, this Barbizon School artist painted The Angelus as well as a work that shows an abundant harvest in the background as three peasant women pick up stray stalks of hay, The Gleaners.
This artist's most ambitious work from his academic phase, The Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, was widely panned when it was unveiled at the Salon of 1848 and disappeared shortly thereafter.
Jean-Francois Millet