The Gleaners
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| - | '''''The Gleaners''''' (''Des glaneuses'') is an [[oil painting]] by [[Jean-François Millet]] completed in [[1857 in art|1857]]. It depicts three peasant women [[gleaning]] a field of stray grains of [[wheat]] after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes. The Gleaners was also the inspiration for the name of the [[Gleaner Manufacturing Company]]. | + | '''''The Gleaners''''' (''Des glaneuses'') is an [[oil painting]] by [[Jean-François Millet]] completed in [[1857 in art|1857]]. It depicts three peasant women [[gleaning]] a field of stray grains of [[wheat]] after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes. |
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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 grains of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes.
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