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The Gleaners, painted in the realist style by Jean-François Millet, depicts peasants picking stray wheat from a field after the harvest. The realists' emphasis on accurately portraying the experiences of average working people was largely a rejection of the romantic style evident in many paintings by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, which instead ________ their subjects' beauty or heroism while hiding all imperfection.