The Gleaners
The poorest peasant women given the monumentality of a classical frieze; critics saw a threat
- Author
- Jean-François Millet
- Style
- Realism — Paint what you see: peasants, labourers and the provinces at the scale of history painting
- Century
- 19th century
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