Vincent van Gogh - Evening The Watch after Millet 1889

Two Poplars on a Road Through the Hills 1889 View of the Church of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole 1889 The Walk Falling Leaves 1889 Evening The Watch after Millet 1889 The Sower, after Millet 1889 The Sower, after Millet 1889 Wheat Field in Rain 1889
Evening The Watch after Millet 1889

Evening The Watch after Millet 1889
74x93cm 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."