 After the Salon, Millet, short on money, sold his piece for 3,000 francs—below his asking price of 4,000—after haggling with an Englishman named Binder who would not budge for his meagre counter-offer; Millet tried to keep the miserable price a secret.While "The Gleaners" garnered little but notoriety during his life, after his death in 1875, public appreciation of his work steadily broadened.In 1889, the painting, then owned by banker Ferdinand Bischoffsheim, sold for 300,000 francs at auction.