Claim: A part of the Realism movement and an avid realist painter, Lhermitte's The Gleaners (1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art - an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia) depicts the working class poverty in Italy where he took very obvious inspiration from Millet, a painting of the same name.
Evidence: Léon Augustin Lhermitte (31 July 1844, Mont-Saint-Père – 28 July 1925, Paris) was a French painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work. Léon-Augustin Lhermitte's The Gleaners (1887, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A part of the Realism movement and an avid realist painter, Lhermitte depicts the working class poverty in France.