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Artworks , Museum Art Reproductions Man With A Hoe - 1862 By Jean-François Millet

Artworks , Museum Art Reproductions Man With A Hoe - 1862 By Jean-François Millet

"Man With A Hoe"

Jean-François Millet - Oil - 80 x 99 cm - 1862 - (Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States))
Man With A Hoe (1860 - 1862) is by the French painter Jean-François Millet. The man in the picture was considered brutish and frightening by Parisian bourgeoisie. The Industrial Revolution had caused a steady exodus from French farms, and Man with a Hoe was interpreted as a socialist protest about the peasant's plight. Though his paintings were judged in political terms, Millet declared that he was neither a socialist nor an agitator.