Reckoning with Millet's Man with a Hoe, 1863-1900 (Allan Scott)(Paperback)

A revelatory exploration of one of Jean-Franois Millet's most contentious paintings. A monumentalizing portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil, Man with a Hoe (1860-62) by Jean-Franois Millet (1814-1875) is arguably the most art historically significant painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of nineteenth-century European art. This volume situates the work in the arc of Millet's career and traces its fascinating and contentious reception, from its scandalous debut at the 1863 Paris Salon to the years following its acquisition by American collectors in the 1890s. The essays examine the painting's tumultuous public life, beginning in France, where critics attacked it on aesthetic and political grounds as a radical realist provocation; through its transformative movement in the art market during the remaining years of the artist's life and following
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