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Art the community tagged “grain” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Jul 30

The Wheat Sifters by Gustave Courbet, 1854

The Wheat Sifters

Nantes Museum of Arts · wikidata.org

Public domain

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.