The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet canvas art arrives ready to hang, with hanging accessories included and no additional framing required. Every canvas print is hand-crafted in the USA, made on-demand at iCanvas and expertly stretched around 100% North American Pine wood stretcher bars. We only use industry leading archival UltraChrome® Giclée inks to achieve the most vivid and high-definition prints possible.
Painted just nine years after the Revolution of 1848, Jean-Francois Millet’s 1857 painting “The Gleaners” shook the foundations of Parisian polite society almost as much as the insurgency itself. Products of the Romantic ideal that had come to inhabit literature, painting, and philosophy across Europe, both the revolution and Millet’s masterwork were a reaction to calls for individual liberty, regardless of class or social status. It was the revolution that spawned Marx and Engels’ text The Communist Manifesto, and slowly led to a century of drastic change. First shown at the Paris Salon, “The Gleaners” was indicted as an attack on bourgeois morality. For contemporary critics, simply the sight of peasants as the subjects of a work in the Salon was enough to destroy the artist’s reputation. The subject of the work is the sullen activity known as ‘gleaning’ whereby the local peasant women were allowed to pick up the scraps and shavings left after the harvesting of the season’s crops. Bent over in humility and exhaustion, the women are depicted against the illustrious backdrop of the landlord’s property. Without any classical anchor with which to read the work, critics at the time were aghast at what appeared to be nothing less than an incitement of revolt. With an audience used to reading allegory and symbols, Millet’s work mystified many who saw it, missing the simple message of decrying poverty, inequality, and austerity. The only figure with which the viewer might have identified — the landowner watching atop his horse, and merely a speck on the horizon — served to underline the social distance upon which French life was structured.
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Lifetime Warranty
“Is this new?” That is what you are going to hear for the next 50 years. Your yellows will stay as yellow as the first day you hung your art. If not, we will replace it.
Handcrafted Quality
Every item is made-to-order and assembled in-house by our team, using only premium materials...cuz we're a little obsessed about art.
Made in The USA
All of our premium materials are sourced from the states, and then assembled at iCanvas, in Illinois. Lincoln would be proud.
Canvas Print Framing Options
Gallery Wrapped Canvas
All of our artwork comes gallery wrapped. The image is stretched around the sides and stapled to the
back of the wooden frame. Your piece of art will be ready to hang, and will include an easy-to-use
hanging kit.
Floating Frame
A little “armor for your art” that won‘t obscure the canvas. Your canvas print is
gallery wrapped and mounted to a 2" thick, elegant, black hard wood frame. The art is inset, leaving a
3/8" space between the art and frame, creating the illusion that your art is “floating.”
Gold & Silver finish
Mottled Gold & Silver frames are hard wood with a textured metallic finish.
Silver pairs well with cool colors and dark backgrounds like black or navy and will give your art a modern look.
The more versatile gold frame option pairs particularly well with classic art, traditional décor, and warmer colors.
Framed Canvas Framing Options
Gallery Wrapped Canvas
All of our artwork comes gallery wrapped. The image is stretched around the sides and stapled to the
back of the wooden frame. Your piece of art will be ready to hang, and will include an easy-to-use
hanging kit.
Floating Frame
A little “armor for your art” that won‘t obscure the canvas. Your canvas print is
gallery wrapped and mounted to a 2" thick, elegant, black hard wood frame. The art is inset, leaving a
3/8" space between the art and frame, creating the illusion that your art is “floating.”
Gold & Silver finish
Mottled Gold & Silver frames are hard wood with a textured metallic finish.
Silver pairs well with cool colors and dark backgrounds like black or navy and will give your art a modern look.
The more versatile gold frame option pairs particularly well with classic art, traditional décor, and warmer colors.
About Framed Art Prints
Fine Art Paper
Presented on heavyweight (300 GSM) fine art paper with a distinct textured surface, using long-lasting ultra-chrome inks. A white border is left around the artwork for self-matting or to draw the eye in further.
Low-Glare Acrylic
Acrylite clear-coat premium glazing reduces glare while maintaining a crystal clear view of your art. Your art will be well protected and easy to clean.
Frame Options
Our Indonesian hardwood frames are handcrafted at iCanvas. Black & white matte frames have a sleek lacquer finish and are versatile enough to pair with almost any piece of art.
Mottled Gold has a textured metallic finish and pairs particularly well with classic art, traditional décor, and warmer colors.
Highest Quality Standards
Giclee Printing Process
The standard for precision and stunning color reproduction.
Premium Materials
The best quality canvas for texture and finish; premium inks for vivid color; hand-stretched over 100% North American pine frames.
Handcrafted
Every item is made-to-order — printed, stretched, and stapled here, at iCanvas.
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