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Their backs are hunched, they look down at the ground, searching for ears of corn that the harvesters may have forgotten. Behind them, large haystacks, hay piled high, a certain image of abundance, guarded by a steward on horseback, but the focus remains on these women, these gleaners, whose bodies are sculpted by the light of the setting sun. Des glaneuses, which Jean-François Millet painted in 1857 before presenting it at the Salon, received a lukewarm critical reception. He was accused of mythologizing poverty and the rural proletariat, and of using pictorial realism for political ends. His early career, between the Cotentin region and Paris, had been uncertain, oscillating between portraiture and classical nudes inspired by eighteenth-century art, whose paintings he had studied at the Louvre. Barbizon, where he helped establish the famous school of the same name, led him to study landscapes, rural scenes and, in particular, agricultural trades. With his Glaneuses, Millet continues to evoke an unchanging world, the work of the fields, the nobility of daily tasks, using light, its reflections and its expressive power to both individualize and enlarge the characters. In this, he prefigures the movements and artists who would see him as a master, from Van Gogh to the Impressionists, Dalí and Edward Hopper. In each case, it is the role of light against the almost traditional formal qualities of the composition that lends a modernity to the whole, shrouding it in an austere calm. The painting was acquired by Madame Pommery, of the famous Champagne house, before being donated to the French state. It was exhibited at the Louvre until 1986, and since then at the Musée d'Orsay. Antoine Vigne
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Timbre (taille-douce) : création et gravure Sarah Lazarevic © Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France/Bridgeman Images.
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Commercialisation start date
January 20, 2025
Commercialisation end date
January 31, 2026
Adherence type
Gummed
Printing technique
Intaglio
Number per sheet
9
Permanent value
Face value
2.58 €
Philatelic charter family
Philatelic program stamp
Official release date
January 20, 2025
Stamp format
Feuille 185 x 143 mm ; Timbre 52 x 40.85 mm
author
LAZAREVIC Sarah
Product number
1125051
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