211 Jean-François Millet, Les Glaneuses (The Gleaners), 1857, oil on...

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Description: The Gleaners (Les Glaneuses)

TitleThe Gleaners (Les Glaneuses)

Creator nameMillet, Jean-François

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1857

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions83.5 × 110 cm

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/des-glaneuses-342

Accession numberRF 592

SubjectsGleaningBarbizon schoolPainting, French--19th century

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8. Naturalism Entrenched: Tradition, Consensus, Rupture

Richard Thomson

Description: Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France,...

Art of the Actual: Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France, 1880–1900

~Striving away from naturalism to achieve style, abandoning the republican consensus to appeal to an elite, denying the inclusive for the exclusive, was a strategy rather more insecure than is perhaps typically understood. There was an increasing lack of momentum in avant-garde...

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Richard Thomson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.275-304

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00022.012

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Chapter subject tags:Nabis (Group of artists)France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940Naturalism in art--France--19th centuryPainting, Modern--France--19th centuryMillet, Jean-François, 1814-1875Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Painting, French--19th century

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