The Potato Harvest

1855

65.2 cm 54 cm

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After moving from Paris to the village of Barbizon on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest in 1851, Millet devoted himself to portraying the lives of his neighbors. Some critics interpreted his paintings of working farmers as a critique of the injustices inherent in the social...

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Papeleu, prior to 1863 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Baron Goethals, prior to 1867 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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