Millet's 'The Gleaners'.

Copy - watercolour / gouache.

 

.....Jean-Francois Millet ( 1814 - 1875 ) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

.....He is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers and can be categorised as part of the movement termed " naturalism ", and also as " realism ".

..........Millets 'The Gleaners' depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest.

.....The painting is famous for monumentalizing what were then the lowest ranks of rural society. The earthy figures blend into the colour of the piece, ingraining them well into the scene.

..........The original is in the Musee d'Orsay - Paris.

...............painted 1857.

 

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