Which artist is famous for the painting 'The Gleaners'?

Which artist is famous for the painting The Gleaners? Jean-François Millet is the canonical answer.

Millet completed The Gleaners in 1857. The oil painting depicts three peasant women collecting stray stalks of grain left behind after a harvest, a practice known as gleaning. Millet made the women’s repetitive, bent postures and plain clothing the visual focus while placing a prosperous harvest and busy farm workers in the distance.

The subject connected the painting to rural poverty and the difficult lives of agricultural laborers. When it appeared at the Salon of 1857, many prosperous viewers found its large scale and sympathetic treatment of poor workers unsettling, especially after the political upheavals of the 1848 Revolution.

Millet was associated with the Barbizon school and is often grouped with Realist painters, though his rural scenes can be more poetic and carefully composed than Courbet’s confrontational works. Earlier studies of The Gleaners included a vertical version from 1854 and an etching from 1855. The finished painting is held by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.