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The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay , in Paris . It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest.
The Gleaners (French: Les Glaneurs) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1854. The painting depicts an idealized version of peasant life.
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, lit. "The gleaners and the female gleaner") is a 2000 French documentary film by Agnès Varda that features various kinds of gleaning . It screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival ("Official Selection 2000"), and later went on to win awards around the world.
This is one of the most well known of Millet's paintings, The Gleaners (1857). While Millet was walking the fields around Barbizon, one theme returned to his pencil and brush for seven years— gleaning —the centuries-old right of poor women and children to remove the bits of grain left in the fields following the harvest.
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, 1857. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops in the field after harvest. During harvest, there is food that is left or missed often because it does not meet store standards for uniformity. Sometimes, fields are left because they were not economically profitable to harvest.
In 1854, he returned to the village of Courrières where he settled. He began The Gleaners, a work inspired by seasonal field labor and the plight of the less fortunate who were left to gather what remained in the field after the harvest. The Gleaners received a third class medal, which launched Breton's career. He received commissions from the ...
The Gleaners (1887) by Léon Lhermitte. The Gleaners is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Léon Lhermitte, from 1887. It is held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [1] Lhermitte depicts a scene from the working class in France. The painting takes obvious inspiration from Jean-François Millet, and his painting of the same name, The ...
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