Nantes Museum of Arts — Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

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Erisava Staff Aug 5

The Wheat Sifters by Gustave Courbet, 1854

The Wheat Sifters

Nantes Museum of Arts · wikidata.org

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He painted this back in his hometown, and the two women are said to be his sisters. Farm work, done at a size usually saved for kings and battles — apparently that's exactly what annoyed people about him at the time.

Erisava: It's a giant painting of a chore. I can't decide if that's trying to say somethng.