The Potato Planters
₹1,400.00 (+ GST = ₹1,652.00)
Jean-François Millet | ca. 1861
click here for a larger viewIn The Potato Planters, one of Jean-François Millet’s lesser known, but most finished, works, a labourer turns the sod with his hoe, while his wife drops in the potato seed.
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Description
In this rural scene, Jean-François Millet has depicted a peasant couple planting potatoes for themselves. During this period, potatoes were still generally considered to be animal fodder, and unfit for human consumption. However, as Millet would have been aware, potatoes were the main starch food in the diet of a lot of peasant families who were unable to afford bread. Millet was undoubtedly not of the opinion that growing and eating potatoes was in any way unfit or uncultured, and he defended the practice, writing “Why should the work of a potato planter be less interesting or less noble than any other activity?”.
In this scene, the husband and wife are shown working in unison to plant their vegetables, with the man walking moving slowly forwards and opening holes in the earth with his hoe, whilst his wife steps carefully backwards, dropping seed-potatoes in them. In the background, distant village houses can be discerned, but they are otherwise enveloped in the hazy, luminous countryside. Nevertheless, Millet has given his two peasants a solid modelling, emphasising the dignity of them and their work.
The donkey has been relieved of his panniers, and now rests in the shade of some apple-trees. One of the baskets is in the mean time put to a novel use. Made soft and warm with a heavy cloak, it forms a nice cradle for the baby.
Additional information
| Artist: | Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) |
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| Size of Print: | 18×15" |
| Frame: | Not included. The painting will be dispatched to you in a mailing tube. |
| Print or Original: | |
| Style of Art: | Realism |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Artist
Born in Normandy, France, Jean-Francois Millet (1814–75) was a French painter well known for his paintings of peasants and rural life. His first successful piece was The Milkmaid (1840), and his most popular painting became Angelus (1859). Because of his focus on the labors of rustic living, he was accused of being a socialist. He is linked with the Barbizon school.
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