Return of the Miners by Constantin Meunier (1851)

Painting of miners in work clothes and caps walking across a coal slope toward a smoking factory chimney.

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A group of miners in pale work clothes and caps walks in a determined line across a dark slope of coal spoil, with pickaxes in hand. Smoke rises from a factory chimney and industrial structures in the hazy background, while a wooden trestle and a loaded wagon appear at the right.

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1851

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Public domain