This painting by Jean-Francois Millet depicts three peasant women gathering leftover grains of wheat in a field. The painting is a representation of the rural French peasantry and their hardworking lifestyle. The women are shown in a humble and dignified pose, with their faces turned away from
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Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.