# Wheat Fields: The Plain of Auvers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GOGH, Vincent van]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 50 x 100 cm ## Commentary <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note02.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue numbers:</a> F 775, JH 2038. For this painting van Gogh chose a rather unusual, double squared format to grasp the essential features of the cornfields surrounding Auvers. It was perhaps the works of Daubigny, working a lot in Auvers and highly esteemed by van Gogh, that inspired him to try this decorative, frieze-like format, since Daubigny enjoyed using canvases of similar proportions. Van Gogh envisaged this painting as part of a greater, decorative ensemble. Van Gogh suggested a painting of the same size but of upright format, depicting Marguerite Gachet sitting by the piano \(F 772\) as its pendant. The painting in Vienna is part of a cycle where van Gogh tried to grasp the places characteristic of the rural landscape \(fields, roads, haystacks, forests, gardens\) as well as the typical natural phenomena \(rain, storm, sunset\). He envisaged complementing them with square canvases portraying children. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage on the Heath and "The Protestant Barn"]() - [A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles]() - [A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul]() - [A Pair of Leather Clogs]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Pair of Shoes]() - [A Workman's Meal-Break]() - [Agostina Segatori in the Café du Tambourin]() - [Almond Tree in Blossom]() - [Apricot Trees in Blossom]() - [At Eternity's Gate \("Worn Out"\)]() - [Avenue of Plane Trees near Arles Station]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()