The
Ploughing Lesson
by François-André Vincent
an VI = 1798, 213 x 313 cm
The scene attests to the physiocratic ideas as
found in Treatise on the Cultivation of the Land (1750) by the agronomist
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-82) and Rural Philosophy or General and
Individual Economy of Agriculture (1764, 3 volumes) by the economist Mirabeau
(1715-89). It may depict the family of the future Girondin member of the National
Convention, François Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède (1766-93), with his wife Marie-Anne,
née Barrère, and their children Geneviève and Jean-François Bernard,
who is having a ploughing lesson.
The
Ploughing Lesson