Millet, The Gleaners, France, Realism, Early 19th Century

-specialized in depictions of French country life

-showed realistic views of life such as women picking up remainders left in field after the Harvest

-placed his figures in the foreground and in the background included a very flat horizon, haystacks, cottages, trees, and distant workers with a flat horizon

-crticized for painting the poor with a solemn grandeur by the upper classes

-middle class linked with newly defined working class which scared upper classes

-Millets depiction of the poor came off as a poltical manifesto