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Title Reckoning with Millet's Man with a hoe, 1863-1900 / edited by Scott Allan ; with essays by Scott Allan, Simon Kelly, and John Ott
Published Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 123 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction / Scott Allan -- "The epic of labor": Millet's Man with a hoe at the 1863 salon / Simon Kelly -- From toxic asset to trophy picture: the fortunes of Man with a hoe, 1863-90 / Scott Allan -- Westward hoe! evolution, eugenics, and the reception of Millet in the United States / John Ott
Summary "Situates French artist Jean-François Millet's painting 'Man with a Hoe' (1860-62) in the arc of his career and traces its reception, from its debut at the 1863 Paris Salon to the years following its acquisition by American collectors in the 1890s"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Reckoning with Millet's 'Man with a hoe,'" on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from September 12 to December 10, 2023
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2023)
Subject Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875. Man with a hoe -- Exhibitions
J. Paul Getty Museum -- Exhibitions
SUBJECT J. Paul Getty Museum fast
Subject Peasants in art -- Exhibitions
Labor in art -- Exhibitions
Rural conditions in art -- Exhibitions
Painting -- California -- Los Angeles -- Exhibitions
Labor in art
Painting
Peasants in art
Rural conditions in art
ART / General
California -- Los Angeles
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
Author Allan, Scott, 1975- editor.
Kelly, Simon (Simon R.), contributor.
Ott, John, 1971- contributor.
Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875.
J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.
LC no. 2023008782
ISBN 9781606068564
1606068563
9781606068571
1606068571