Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz)
The story
A harvester offers Ruth a drink under a sheaf of wheat as Boaz looks on — the Biblical scene transposed to a 19th-century French field. Painted in 1850-53 — Millet's most ambitious narrative canvas.
- Artist
- Jean-François Millet
- Year
- 1851
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
