Haymaking (French: Les foins) or Resting in the Fields[1] is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage, from 1877.

First exhibited at the 1878 Paris Salon, it was acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg in 1885 at the posthumous sale of the artist's works.

It is worth noting the seemingly photographic composition of the painting: the horizon line is located at a very high point so that the majority of its surface is occupied in the background by mown grass and haystacks, and the sky is visible only on a small strip of canvas.

[3] Novelist Émile Zola highly praised Bastien-Lepage as the "grandson of Jean-François Millet and Gustave Courbet", and considered Haymaking as a masterpiece of naturalism in painting.

The posture of the exhausted woman is very expressive with her hands lowered, her head slightly thrown back.