Common painting

The Common Painting is a painting in the introduced in. It is based on 's .

Authenticity
In and, there are no forgeries of this painting.

Museum exhibit description
"This painting depicts a common scene of the day where extra wheat is collected by the needy."

- Museum Exhibit

Further information
, painted in 1857, shows three peasant women collecting scraps of wheat in the foreground, their poverty obvious despite the landowner's bounty in the background. When it was first exhibited, the painting received negative reviews from the upper class, who saw it as glorifying the common worker without any references to the Bible. It is a good example of Realism art. Once housed in the Louvre, The Gleaners is currently on display in the.