Jean-Charles Millet 1892-1944. Beautiful Landscape of Brittany with Fishing Village.

  
Note: The moving aspect of this painting is as much due to its beautiful execution as it is to the personality of Jean-Charles Millet, whose last years of life were chaotic and even tragic: indeed, according to information from the web, the artist, who was also a "forger and therefore a fraudster," was sentenced to prison for various wrongdoings in the 1930s... During the occupation, he was arrested on July 2, 1944, and placed in the infamous "Death Train," which took him to the Dachau concentration camp where he died shortly after his arrival, murdered by the Nazis... It is essential to read the remarkable article by journalist Pierre-Laurent Mazars from the JDD newspaper dated February 7, 2020, which recounts the investigation led by the famous judge "Eric Halphen" on the case of "Jean-Charles Millet": this investigation is very interesting because it portrays the artist in a more romantic familial light than certain web articles suggest, and thereby restores his humanity, given his tragic end.