The Reapers Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876). The Reapers, 1851. Oil on cradled panel, 12 3/8 x 19 15/16 in. ( x cm). 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. European Art 1851

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