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Compare the bent worker with the sloping roof: both are built from the same subdued greens and browns.
Van Gogh painted this cottage during his years in Nuenen, in the Netherlands, before moving to Paris. It belongs to a group of village homes he encountered on walks. The close tonal relationship between the worker, building, and soil offers a useful contrast with the brighter palette of his later French paintings.
Oil on canvas · 31.3 × 42 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism
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- Museum title
- A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 31.3 × 42 cm (12 5/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 62.6 × 10.8 cm (20 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.