"Le Retour des Champs" (The Return from the Fields) by Jules-Alexis Muenier is a color lithograph depicting rural French peasants, likely women and children, returning home after agricultural labor. Muenier's work exemplifies the 19th century genre of peasant scenes, rendered with attention to naturalistic detail and the dignity of working life. The lithographic medium allows for rich color saturation and tonal variation characteristic of the artist's documentary yet sympathetic approach to rural subjects.