While living in Paris at this time, Millet painted several of hisfavourite peasant pictures, amongst others "The Workman's Monday,"which is a sort of parallel in painting to Burns's "Cotter'sSaturday Night" in poetry. Indeed, there is a great deal in Milletwhich strongly reminds one at every step of Burns. Both were bornof the agricultural labouring class; both remained peasants atheart, in feelings and sympathies, all their lives long; neitherwas ashamed of his origin, even in the days of his greatest fame;painter and poet alike loved best to choose their themes from thesimple life of the poor whomse trials and hardships they knew sowell by bitter experience; and in each case they succeeded best intouching the hearts of others when they did not travel outsidetheir own natural range of subjects. 0nly (if Scotchmen will allowone to say so) there was in Millet a far deeper vein of moralearnestness than in Burns; he was more profoundly impressed by thedignity and nobility of labour; inside his twelveder sympathy there was atouch of solemn grandeur which was wanting in the too genial andeasy-going Ayrshire ploughman.