Vincent van Gogh - Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves after Millet 1889

Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise 1889 Half Figure of an Angel after Rembrandt 1889 Olive Trees 1889 Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves after Millet 1889 Peasant Woman Cutting Straw after Millet 1889 Peasant Woman with a Rake after Millet 1889 The Pieta, after Delacroix 1889
Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves after Millet 1889

Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves after Millet 1889
43x33cm oil/canvas
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum

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Van Gogh made twenty-one paintings in Saint-Rémy that were "translations" of the work of Jean-François Millet. Van Gogh did not intend for his works to be literal copies of the originals. Speaking specifically of the works after Millet, he explained, "it's not copying pure and simple that one would be doing. It is rather translating into another language, the one of colors, the impressions of chiaroscuro and white and black."