Who painted the late nineteenth-century piece The Gleaners?

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Jean-François Millet painted the late nineteenth-century piece The Gleaners.
Key Takeaway: A masterpiece of the late nineteenth-century Realist movement, The Gleaners was painted in 1857 by Jean-François Millet. In it, the Millet painted the Gleaners, the very poorest of the poor in a local rural town, who were left to pick up scraps left over after the harvest. Millet attempted to show the nobility of the poor and of doing hard labor and because of this, the work was seen as being a socialist work to a large segment of the population.

Who Painted the Late Nineteenth-Century Piece the Gleaners