Archeological Reminiscence Millet_s Angelus by Salvador Dali in the year 1933. Jean-François Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he is one of the Realism art movement founder. Millet was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Claude Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy