The first image above is of an oil painting, The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet, from 1857.
It shows three female peasants gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. It's famous for featuring, in a sympathetic way, what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was...
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