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) 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.
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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 he painted after the ten prints of Millet’s The Labours of the Field; this is one of them.