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Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes

1885 · Oil on canvas, mounted on panel

A peasant woman bends low over the earth to dig up potatoes, painted in the dark, earthy tones of Van Gogh's Dutch period, the same year as The Potato Eaters.

ArtistVVincent van Gogh
MuseumRRoyal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
MovementPPost-Impressionism
LocationAntwerp, Belgium
Genregenre art
Dimensions30 × 38 cm
SourceWikidata Q21621393

Why it matters

A peasant woman digs potatoes in poor soil. Van Gogh saw peasants as pious people ennobled by hard labour, and took Jean-François Millet as his 'eternal master'.

Did you know?

  • It was probably painted in 1885, the year of The Potato Eaters.
  • It is Van Gogh's only painting in the Antwerp museum.
  • The museum bought it for 300,000 francs.

Based on the Wikipedia article Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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