| The Weeders | |
| Artist: | Jules Breton |
| Year: | 1868 |
| Material: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 71.4 |
| Width Metric: | 127.6 |
| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| City: | New York |
The Weeders is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Breton, from 1868. It depicts a group of peasant women working the fields of Northern France. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
Originally a painter of historical scenes, Jules Breton began to shift with time his focus away from historicity to agrarian scenes. One of the paintings produced as a result of this new focus was The Weeders, which Breton painted after observing a group of farmers in his home town of Courrières picking over a field to clear away weeds and thistle.[1]