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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.
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. He found the theme an ...
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Original – The Gleaners, an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857 which depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. It has been called one of Millet's best known works. Reason High quality scan of a notable painting Articles in which this image appears The Gleaners, Jean-François ...
Jean-François Millet – 27 paintings including The Angelus, Spring, The Gleaners; Piet Mondrian – 2 paintings; Claude Monet – 86 paintings (another main collection of his paintings is in the Musée Marmottan Monet) including The Saint-Lazare Station, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris.
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet, 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Millet extended the idea from landscape to figures – peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In The Gleaners (1857), for example, Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. Gleaners are poor people who are permitted to gather the ...
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.