Why it matters
A wide landscape of the dry Crau plain near Arles glows in summer sunlight. Van Gogh was exceptionally pleased with it: he gave it a French title himself, La moisson, and wrote to Theo three times that 'the canvas absolutely kills all the others'.
Did you know?
- It was painted in June 1888.
- It was the first work he proposed to exhibit, at the Salon des Indépendants.
- It is in the Van Gogh Museum.
Based on the Dutch Wikipedia article De oogst (Van Gogh) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
