The Wheat Sifters

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

Painted during the winter of 1853-1854, the work depicts three figures engaged in the act of winnowing, or sifting grain. The central figure, seen from behind, operates a large circular sieve. Behind her, to the left, another woman sits cross-legged and reclining as she sorts grain by hand. On the right, a young boy peers into a tarare, an early mechanical device used to clean grain.

The young women in the painting are believed to be Courbet's sisters: Zoë and Juliette. Zoë is depicted as the central figure, and Juliette is the seated figure to the left. The boy is most likely Désiré Binet, the painter's illegitimate son. He would have been six years old when Courbet began working on the painting.

It was exhibited at the Salon of 1855 in Paris, then in 1861 at the ninth exhibi…

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