Reckoning with Millet's "Man with a Hoe," 1863-1900

$26.95 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Scott Allan, with contributions by Simon Kelly and John Ott  A revelatory exploration of one of Jean-François Millet’s most contentious paintings. A monumentalizing portrayal of a peasant bowed over by brutal toil, Man with a Hoe (1860–62) by Jean-François 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…