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This volume situates the portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil in the arc of Jean-Francois Millet's (1814-1875) 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.
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- ISBN 9781606068557
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This volume situates the portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil in the arc of Jean-Francois Millet's (1814-1875) 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.
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This volume situates the portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil in the arc of Jean-Francois Millet's (1814-1875) 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.
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The Arts > The visual, decorative or fine arts: treatments and subjects > History of art
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Reckoning with Millet's \"Man with a Hoe,\" 1863-1900 has 128 page(s)
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John Ott, Scott Allan, Simon Kelly
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Getty Publications
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