

| Date : between 1847 and 1848
Sizes : 75 cm x 101 cm Material : Oil on canvas Acquisition : Purchase (1878) Salon des Artistes français
| Item 21 on 24 French Painting Painting
Area related France
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A winnower tosses grain to allow the wind to blow away the chaff. This is Millet's first major depiction of a peasant, painted about the time of the February 1848 Revolution and exhibited at that year's Paris Salon. It was later believed destroyed and was only rediscovered in 1927.
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