The Reaper, Constantin Emile Meunier

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work, men, rural life, figure, labor

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Credit
Bequest of Celia Schmidt. CC0.
Licence
CC0-1.0
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api.artic.edu artworks api: is_public_domain=true on artwork 94544 (read 2026-09-01)
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https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94544
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The Reaper, Constantin Emile Meunier
The Reaper — Constantin Emile Meunierc. 1895

Within fifty years of c. 1895

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  1. The international studio · John Lane

    Barlach’s figures, drawn as they are from the “folk” groups, from the lower strata of society, inevitably challenge comparison with the sculptures of Constantin Meumer, the Belgian who made a world success with his delineations of laborers and the peasantry. Such a comparison may prove illuminating in several ways. Meunier is par excellence an example of Naturalism or Realism for its own sake. Read any article about him and you will find that it is “truth to life” that is insisted upon, over and over again. Look at a Meunier
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