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About a dozen women and men, all with pale or suntanned skin, work in a field harvesting grain in this horizontal painting. The women wear long skirts and aprons, and some wear cloths tied around their heads. The men wear long-sleeved shirts rolled up to the elbow and long pants. Closest to us and to our right of center, a woman stands facing our left in profile, holding a large, round sieve. Her dark hair is pulled back, and she wears a gold-colored, teardrop-shaped earring in the ear we can see. The sleeves of her white blouse are rolled up and a teal-blue apron is tied over a brown,…

The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed)

Jules Breton (French, 1827 - 1906)

1860 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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