The Gleaners
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| - | The '''Barbizon school''' (circa [[1830]]–[[1870]]) of painters is named after the village of [[Barbizon]] near [[Fontainebleau|Fontainebleau Forest]], [[France]], where the artists gathered. | ||
| - | The Barbizon painters were part of a movement towards [[realism (visual arts)|realism]] in art in reaction to the more formalized [[Romanticism|romantic movement]] of the time. | + | '''''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]]. |
| - | In [[1824]] the [[Paris Salon of 1824|Salon de Paris]] exhibited works of [[John Constable]]. His rural scenes influenced some of the younger artists of the time, moving them to abandon formalism and to draw inspiration directly from nature. Natural scenes became the subjects of their paintings rather than mere backdrops to dramatic events. | ||
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| - | During the [[Revolutions of 1848]] artists gathered at Barbizon to follow Constable's ideas, making nature the subject of their paintings. | ||
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| - | One of them, [[Jean-François Millet]], extended the idea from [[landscape art|landscape]] to figures — peasant figures, scenes of peasant life, and work in the fields. In ''[[The Gleaners]]'' ([[1857]]), Millet portrays three peasant women working at the harvest. There is no drama and no story told, merely three peasant women in a field. | ||
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| - | The leaders of the Barbizon school were [[Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot]], [[Théodore Rousseau]], [[Jean-François Millet]] and [[Charles-François Daubigny]]; other members included [[Jules Dupré]], [[Narcisse Virgilio Diaz]], [[Henri Harpignies]], [[Félix Ziem]] and [[Alexandre DeFaux]]. | ||
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| - | Both Rousseau ([[1867]]) and Millet ([[1875]]) died at Barbizon. | ||
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| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Gustave Courbet]] | ||
| - | * [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]] | ||
| - | * [[Karl Bodmer]] | ||
| - | * [[Hippolyte Boulenger]] | ||
| - | * [[Hamilton Irving Marlatt|H. I. Marlatt]] | ||
| - | * [[American Barbizon school]] | ||
| - | * [[Art colony]] | ||
| - | * [[Naturalism (art)]] | ||
| - | * [[landscape art]] | ||
| - | * [[Macchiaioli]] | ||
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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. The Gleaners was also the inspiration for the name of the Gleaner Manufacturing Company.
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