The Gleaners (Full)

The Gleaners (Jean-François Millet) — the painting printed edge-to-edge at its own proportions. The Gleaners · Jean-François Millet · 1857.

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About this work

Artist: Jean-François Millet (1814–1875)
Year: 1857
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 83.8 × 111.8 cm
Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Movement: Realism

Three peasant women bend to pick up stray ears of wheat left after the harvest, their backs curved in the same rhythm, while far behind them the harvest proper goes on with loaded carts, haystacks and a mounted overseer under a golden evening light. Millet painted it at Barbizon in 1857 after a decade of studies of the subject. Gleaning was a right of the rural poor, and showing them at this scale, monumental and anonymous, struck critics at the Salon of 1857 as a political statement; one called the women the Three Fates of pauperism. Millet insisted he was simply painting what he saw. The canvas was bequeathed to the Louvre in 1890 and is now in the Musée d'Orsay, where it hangs near his Angelus.

This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Restored in-house from the original plate — cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 16×12, 24×18 in • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The image fills the print at the painting's own proportions; nothing is trimmed to fit a frame.

Is The Gleaners in the public domain?

Yes. Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Musée d'Orsay.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Gleaners painted, and in what medium?

The Gleaners dates from 1857 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 83.8 × 111.8 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

The Gleaners (Jean-François Millet) — the painting printed edge-to-edge at its own proportions. The Gleaners · Jean-François Millet · 1857. This is a fine-art reproduction of a public-domain masterwork, shown whole and uncropped on a gallery ground, printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Fine Art Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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