That painting includes a pitchfork stuck into the ground and a wheelbarrow behind the bowed figures of two peasants and was originally called Prayer for the Potato Crop.
This artist first came to prominence in the salon with his Oedipus Taken down from the Tree. He painted a girl with a basket on her head and a boy carrying a bent three pronged pitchfork in his The Walk to Work. This artist depicted ladders leaned up against giant stacks of grain in the background of a lunching group in his painting of Ruth and Boaz. The contrast between the sale of one of this man's paintings and the poverty of his heirs was one of the main grounds for the creation of the droit de suite tax in the 1920s. That painting includes a pitchfork stuck into the ground and a wheelbarrow behind the bowed figures of two peasants and was originally called Prayer for the Potato Crop. Another of his paintings depicts three women bending down to collect scraps of grain from a field. For 10 points, name this Barbizon painter of The Angelus and The Gleaners.
This artist first came to prominence in the salon with his Oedipus
Jean-Francois {Millet}