Focus on this artwork and analyze the Reception.
The painting was exhibited at the Paris salon of 1852. The work was very successful and marked a breakthrough in the painter's career. The brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt devoted a long review in high praise of the work: "Men harvest bent and women hurry along the narrow paths and sheaves are tied and wagons loaded. All these activities come together picturesquely in a golden glow, in which a brush without paint makes a plow furrow sparkle here and there (...). The grain harvest has never been better depicted; (...) and Mr Daubigny's painting is a masterpiece, despite the neglect of the background."
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