A part of the Realism movement and an avid realist painter, Lhermitte's The Gleaners (1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art - an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia) depicts the working class poverty in Italy where he took very obvious inspiration from Millet, a painting of the same name; when comparing his work to Millet's, even the poses of the women are very similar if not the same.
A part of the Realism movement and an avid realist painter, Lhermitte's The Gleaners (1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art - an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia) depicts the working class poverty in Italy where he took very obvious inspiration from Millet, a painting of the same name; when comparing his work to Millet's, even the poses of the women are very similar if not the same.