The Wheat Sifters Explained

The Wheat Sifters
Artist:Gustave Courbet
Year:1854
Type:Oil painting
Height Metric:131
Width Metric:167
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
City:Nantes

The Wheat Sifters (Les Cribleuses de Blé) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1854 by the French Realist painter 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.

The young women in the painting 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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Les cribleuses de blé - Histoire et analyse d'images et oeuvres . GAILLARD . Emmanuelle . L'histoire par l'image . September 2005 . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20100909213530/http://www.histoire-image.org/site/oeuvre/analyse.php?rang=0&liste_analyse=413. 9 September 2010 . fr.