The Garden Wall

True to one of Millet's favourite subjects ¨C peasant life ¨C this painting is the culmination of ten years of research on the theme of the gleaners. These women incarnate the rural working-class. They were authorised to go quickly through the fields at sunset to pick up, one by one, the ears of corn missed by the harvesters. Title Gleaners Creator Lifespan 1814 - 1875 Creator Nationality French Creator Gender Male Date Created 1857 Provenance Donation by Mrs Pommery, 1890 Physical Dimensions w1100 x h830 cm Painter Jean-Fran?ois Millet Original Title Des Glaneuses Credit Line ? Mus¨¦e d'Orsay, dist.RMN / Patrice Schmidt Type Oil on canvas Rights ? Mus¨¦e d'Orsay, dist.RMN / Patrice Schmidt