Year 1854 Artist Gustave Courbet Period Realism Media Oil paint | Type Oil painting Dimensions 1.31 m x 1.67 m Created 1854 | |
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Location Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Similar Gustave Courbet artwork, Oil paintings, Realism artwork | ||
The Wheat Sifters (Les Cribleuses de Blé) is an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet.
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris, then in 1861 at the ninth exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Art of Nantes, which then bought the painting for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
Both young women are probably the two sisters of Courbet: Zoe (in the center) and Juliet (seated). The boy could be Désiré Binet, the illegitimate son of the painter.
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