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"The Man with the Hoe" is an 1898 poem by the American poet Edwin Markham, inspired by Jean-François Millet's 1860-1862 painting L'homme à la houe, a painting interpreted as a socialist protest about the peasant's plight.
"Jean-François Millet", poem by Florence Earle Coates; Cartwright, Julia, (1902) Jean François Millet: his life and letters London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co. Sensier, Alfred, (1881) Jean-Francois Millet – Peasant and Painter (transl. Helena de Kay) London: Macmillan and Co. Exhibition catalogue, The Drawings of Jean-François Millet, Jill ...
[3] The Man with a Hoe was the last painting of Millet's so-called "radical" era, which began with The Sower (1850). [ 3 ] After the initial shock of the new, Man with a Hoe lived a quiet life until the 1880s when it re-emerged as a star of three major French exhibitions including the art show at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
Markham's most famous poem, "The Man with the Hoe," which accented laborers' hardships, was first presented at a public poetry reading in 1898. His main inspiration was a French painting of the same name (in French, L'homme à la houe) by Jean-François Millet. Markham's poem was published, and it became quite popular very soon.
Millet expressed a desire to paint a work showing a shepherdess with her flock as early as 1862. As his friend Alfred Sensier related, this theme "obsessed the artist's mind" until he exhibited the work at the Paris Salon of 1864, where it was a great success, called a "refined canvas" by some and a "masterpiece" by others. It was particularly ...
Jean-François Millet: Man with a Hoe ; Artist: Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) ... and Other Poems (1899)/The Man with the Hoe; Usage on es.wikipedia.org
Among them was Jean-François Millet, whose treatment of the subject, now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, [17] was refused by the Salon in 1859. [18] Léon Lhermitte also painted a realistic version in 1893, [19] while the treatment by Joseph Paul Louis Bergès (1878–1956) in 1905 is more in the Symbolist style. [20]
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859.. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.