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Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace  1885

by Vincent van Gogh

This work was made in Nuenen in late spring 1885, just after Van Gogh completed The Potato Eaters (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), in the same dark hues that reminded the artist of "green soap" or "a really dusty potato, unpeeled of course." Van Gogh was "convinced that in the long run it produces better results to paint [peasants] in their coarseness than to introduce conven...
Size: 
44.1 x 38.1 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art