The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet·The Gleaners·1857·Oil on canvas·Musée d'Orsay, Paris↓

Jean-François Millet French, 1814 – 1875

The Gleaners, 1857

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Three peasant women stoop to gather the stalks of wheat left after harvest, the right of the rural poor. In the distance, a rich harvest is stacked and a foreman watches on horseback. Monumental and quiet, it unsettled Parisian critics who smelled revolution.

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The three women show the successive postures of a single movement: bending, picking, rising.

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