Artworks

1889 · F688 · JH1783

The Mower (after Millet)

The Mower (after Millet), 1889. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from The Saint-Rémy Copies.

The Mower (after Millet)
Oil on canvas Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

The Mower (after Millet) meaning and analysis

The Mower (after Millet) belongs to the site node The Saint-Rémy Copies. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.

Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Saint-Remy Period.

Technically, the page connects this work to Van Gogh Oil on Canvas , Van Gogh Brushstroke Analysis . The related map below keeps those paths explicit for readers and search engines.

A mower seen from behind, in a straw hat, both hands on a long scythe, facing waist-high yellow wheat under a deep blue sky; further off another figure bends to work. In September 1889 Van Gogh wrote that he had copied seven of the ten prints of Millet’s The Labours of the Field; the editors of the letters place this canvas among them.