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 Joslyn Art Museum, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Description Originally a painter of historical scenes, Breton began to shift with time his focus 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. The work reminds The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet (1857).
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