Millet’s The Potato Harvest is a remarkable example of social realism due to its subject, style, and purpose. The Potato Harvest depicts a groups of potato farmers working in the plains. In the right foreground, the viewer can see a farmer pouring potatoes into a sack held open by a women. Then the middle ground depicts a group of women digging potatoes surrounded by the background of a warm sunlight sky that is darkening as it fades to the right. This painting can be viewed as representative of the peasants’ struggle for survival, but also a man’s harmonies union with nature. Millet’s subject is typical of the time because it evokes the though of poverty and the typical working, lower class. Prior this time period, this genre subject of the