Why it matters
Road workers labour beneath plane trees with autumn-yellow leaves in Saint-Rémy. Van Gogh painted this version first, then made a near-identical copy, The Road Menders.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1889.
- The copy is in the Phillips Collection in Washington.
- The two were shown together in 2013 in the exhibition Van Gogh Repetitions.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Large Plane Trees (CC BY-SA 4.0).
