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The Reapers

Fromentin depicts the close of the working day as colorfully garbed peasants drag their implements toward an oxcart heavily laden with their harvest. Smoke curls from a chimney in the distance, suggesting the additional reward of a warm hearth. Although Fromentin usually painted exotic scenes of an archaic North Africa, such pastoral images of the French countryside appealed to an increasingly mechanized society.

Artist: Eugène Fromentin, French, 1820-1876
Medium: Oil on cradled panel
Place Made: France
Dates: 1851
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 19 15/16 in. (31.4 x 50.6 cm)
Signature: Signed and dated lower right: "1851 Eug. Fromentin"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, West, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 21.124
Credit Line: Bequest of William H. Herriman
Image: Overall, 21.124_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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