Jean-François Millet · 1857
The Gleaners
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Millet's quiet revolutionary work — three peasant women bent in a stubble-field gathering leftover grain, painted with the gravity normally reserved for saints. The first great painting of unromanticised rural labour.
Up to 24 × 18 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Gleaners
The Gleaners is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.
All Jean-François Millet prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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