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Gustave Courbet
(10th Jun, 1819 - 31st Dec, 1877)
The Wheat Sifters
1854
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Gérard Blot
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes
http://www.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr/
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Gérard Blot
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Keywords:
sieve
scène paysanne
wheat
from behind
on one's knees
daily life scene
grain
agricultural activity
realism
tiredness
bag
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About the artwork
Title:
The Wheat Sifters
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
1310 x 1670
Inventory number:
INV874
Location:
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes
See more about this artwork on Wikipedia:
The Wheat Sifters
(
Les Cribleuses de Blé
) is an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris, then in 1861 at the ninth exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Art of Nantes, which then bought the painting for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Both young women are probably the two sisters of Courbet: Zoe (in the center) and Juliet (seated). The boy could be Désiré Binet, the illegitimate son of the painter.
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About the author(s)
Author:
Gustave Courbet
Also known as:
Jean Desire Gustave Courbet
Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet
Gi︠u︡stav Kurbe
Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
Gust. Courbet
courbet gustave
courbert
G. Courbet
gustav courbet
courbet g.
Born:
10th Jun, 1819
Dead:
31st Dec, 1877
Country:
France
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
(French:
[ɡystav kuʁbɛ]
; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an…
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