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The Nut Gatherers
The Nut Gatherers ("Les Noisettes") is an 1882 oil painting by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is one of the most popular pieces at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting was donated to the museum by William E. Scripps in 1954. 
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donated to the Detroit Art Museum in his memory by his wife in 1954. The painting is "The Nut Gatherers" by William Adolphe Bourguereau.
He died in 1952.
Estate.
In 1916, he began purchasing large tracts of farmland in Lake Orion, Michigan with an ambition to raise livestock and show animals, including Angus cattle, swine, cows, and poultry. The estate, called Wildwood Farms, grew in size to .
In the mid-1920s Scripps hired his brother-in-law, architect