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The Gleaners

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Original – The Gleaners, an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857 which depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. It has been called one of Millet's best known works.
Reason
High quality scan of a notable painting
Articles in which this image appears
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Jean-François Millet
  • Support as nominator –  —  Crisco 1492 ( talk) 15:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support — Well-known work from the period of late-19th C. Realism in art and lit. Sca ( talk) 17:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support — Well-known work indeed. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support: Notable. Fylbecatulous talk 00:26, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support - Well-known, quality image to illustrate both its own article and that of the artist.-- Godot13 ( talk) 03:10, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support - Good, but do you think to have some quality increased till it makes up to this level? I say about the color, forget the resolution The herald 11:09, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
    • Are you sure you think that's an improvement? Looks like someone threw it in Photoshop and cranked up the saturation by 15 or so. —  Crisco 1492 ( talk) 11:35, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
Its not the saturation am talkin' about buddy. Its the quality and color. May be above par in your eyes, but better in mine.Think about it. The herald 13:57, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • You mean the discolorations along the bottom that look like a cheap art book scan? No. —  Crisco 1492 ( talk) 14:12, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Millet was like this - he wanted to paint with "boring" colours. He called that realism. [1] Hafspajen ( talk) 14:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
Yep, Hafspajen got it right. I'm not criticising Crisco, but as a human, I feel the colored one better. Hate realism... The herald 07:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC) reply
Eh, can't say I like it either. Let others nominate those... Hafspajen ( talk) 17:40, 28 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support Iconic. My granny had a reproduction on her wall, colors looked just as "muddy" as this. -- Janke | Talk 20:25, 27 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support -- the original looks pretty nice to me. I am not a fan of colors but I do color paintings ;) Bellus Delphina talk 09:06, 28 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Support Actually surprised this isn't Feature status already.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 20:29, 2 October 2014 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Jean-François Millet - Gleaners - Google Art Project 2.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 16:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC) reply

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