The Gleaners

The Gleaners
French: Des glaneuses
ArtistJean-François Millet
Year1857
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions83.8 cm × 111.8 cm (33 in × 44 in)
LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857.

It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; it was received poorly by the French upper classes.


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