03 — ARTWORK
Peasant Woman Digging Potatoes
- MEDIUM
- Oil on cardboard on panel, 32 x 38 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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CURRENT LOCATION · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
- FILE
- 1200 × 941 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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During the summer of 1885 van Gogh decided to prepare a multi-figure genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. scene by chalk drawings depicting peasants working on the fields, following the example of Jean-François Millet. Due to the negative criticism of his The Potato Eaters, he abandoned the stiffness and flatness of his figures and he took more care in modelling. In July, he tried his new style on some small studies in oil. We know about ten such paintings, most of which depict peasants digging, or potato planting, or harvesting. The present painting in Antwerp is one of these studies.
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