Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Gleaners

The Gleaners

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Original – The Gleaners, an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857 which depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. It has been called one of Millet's best known works.

Reason: High quality scan of a notable painting
Articles in which this image appears: The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Jean-François Millet

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Well-known work from the period of late-19th C. Realism in art and lit. Sca (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Well-known work indeed. Hafspajen (talk) 19:18, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Notable. Fylbecatulous talk 00:26, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Well-known, quality image to illustrate both its own article and that of the artist.--Godot13 (talk) 03:10, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Good, but do you think to have some quality increased till it makes up to this level? I say about the color, forget the resolution The herald 11:09, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Are you sure you think that's an improvement? Looks like someone threw it in Photoshop and cranked up the saturation by 15 or so. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:35, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Its not the saturation am talkin' about buddy. Its the quality and color. May be above par in your eyes, but better in mine.Think about it. The herald 13:57, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You mean the discolorations along the bottom that look like a cheap art book scan? No. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:12, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Millet was like this - he wanted to paint with "boring" colours. He called that realism. [1] Hafspajen (talk) 14:33, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, Hafspajen got it right. I'm not criticising Crisco, but as a human, I feel the colored one better. Hate realism...The herald 07:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, can't say I like it either. Let others nominate those...

Hafspajen (talk) 17:40, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Iconic. My granny had a reproduction on her wall, colors looked just as "muddy" as this. --Janke | Talk 20:25, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- the original looks pretty nice to me. I am not a fan of colors but I do color paintings ;) Bellus Delphina ^talk 09:06, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Actually surprised this isn't Feature status already.--Mark Miller (talk) 20:29, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jean-François Millet - Gleaners - Google Art Project 2.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]