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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Davidschwager, post: 1277384, member: 33103&quot;]That is a good point.&nbsp; Farm workers were a common subject in French and French-influenced art of the 19th century as the idealized subjects of the neoclassical period gave way to the realistic themes of the early modern artists.&nbsp; Van Gogh, who did most of his work in France, also has a well-known sower. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sower.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sower.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sower.jpg</a></p><p>Note, however, that Millet&#039;s and van Gogh&#039;s sowers are both male and cpm9ball is also correct that this figure is Marianne, the personification of the French Republic, similar to our Miss Liberty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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